It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal…… Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that it awakens are independent of time and place, because its kingdom is not of this world.… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we… — Clive Bell Copy Share
It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize… — Clive Bell Copy Share
“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. The objects that provoke aesthetic emotion vary with… — Clive Bell Copy Share
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. — Clive Bell Copy Share
It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality. — Clive Bell Copy Share
“...a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of… — Clive Bell Copy Share
We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A… — Clive Bell Copy Share
Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo… In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of… — Clive Bell Copy Share
“you cannot imagine a boundary line without any content, or a content without a boundary line.” — Clive Bell Copy Share
“The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful; always it is irrelevant. For, to appreciate a work of… — Clive Bell Copy Share
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above,… — Clive Bell Copy Share
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal…… Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that… — Clive Bell Copy Share
