Herbert Read: The work of art … is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty

The work of art … is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may con — Herbert Read

The work of art … is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

Herbert Read

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