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> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/it-is-the-mark-of-great-art-that-its-appeal-is-universal-and-eternal/)

[Clive Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-bell/)

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## More by Clive Bell

> [Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/only-reason-can-convince-us-of-those-three-fundamental-truths-without/)

[Clive Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-bell/)

> [It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/it-is-not-by-his-mixing-and-choosing-but-by-the-shapes-of-his-colors/)

[Clive Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-bell/)

> [“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. The objects that provoke aesthetic emotion vary with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/we-have-no-other-means-of-recognising-a-work-of-art-than-our-feeling/)

[Clive Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-bell/)

> [All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/all-sensitive-people-agree-that-there-is-a-peculiar-emotion-provoked/)

[Clive Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-bell/)

> [It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/it-would-follow-that-significant-form-was-form-behind-which-we-catch/)

[Clive Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-bell/)

> [“...a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/a-work-of-art-is-like-a-rose-a-rose-is-not-beautiful-because-it-is/)

[Clive Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-bell/)

> [We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/we-all-agree-now-by-we-i-mean-intelligent-people-under-sixty-that-a/)

[Clive Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-bell/)

> [Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/cezanne-is-the-christopher-columbus-of-a-new-continent-of-form/)

[Clive Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-bell/)

> [Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo… In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/civilized-people-can-talk-about-anything-for-them-no-subject-is-taboo/)

[Clive Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-bell/)

> [“you cannot imagine a boundary line without any content, or a content without a boundary line.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/you-cannot-imagine-a-boundary-line-without-any-content-or-a-content/)

[Clive Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-bell/)

> [“The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful; always it is irrelevant. For, to appreciate a work of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/the-representative-element-in-a-work-of-art-may-or-may-not-be-harmful/)

[Clive Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-bell/)

> [A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/a-rose-is-the-visible-result-of-an-infinitude-of-complicated-goings/)

[Clive Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-bell/)

> [It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal…… Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/it-is-the-mark-of-great-art-that-its-appeal-is-universal-and-eternal/)

[Clive Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-bell/)

> [Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/do-not-mistake-a-crowd-of-big-wage-earners-for-the-leisure-class/)

[Clive Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-bell/)

> [Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/genius-worship-is-the-inevitable-sign-of-an-uncreative-age/)

[Clive Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-bell/)

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