Clive Bell Quotes
13 Clive Bell quotes:
"Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age."
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"We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves."
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"The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy."
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"Comfort came in with the middle classes."
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"A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind."
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"I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic."
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"Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class."
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"Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open."
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"It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal."
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"All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art."
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"There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless."
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"It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality."
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"We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it."
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