--- title: "1 Wage Earners Quotes By Clive Bell" description: "1 Wage Earners quotes by Clive Bell. Plus more from Clive Bell and more Wage Earners sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e4/clive-bell-20932_class_do-not-mistake-a-crowd-of-big-wage-earne_1400664.png" --- > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e4/clive-bell-20932_class_do-not-mistake-a-crowd-of-big-wage-earne_1400664.png) ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/wage-earners/clive-bell/#itemlist", "name": "1 Wage Earners Quotes By Clive Bell", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Clive Bell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-bell/do-not-mistake-a-crowd-of-big-wage-earners-for-the-leisure-class/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e4/clive-bell-20932_class_do-not-mistake-a-crowd-of-big-wage-earne_1400664.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e4/clive-bell-20932_class_do-not-mistake-a-crowd-of-big-wage-earne_1400664.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e4/clive-bell-20932_class_do-not-mistake-a-crowd-of-big-wage-earne_1400664.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.” — Clive Bell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/wage-earners/clive-bell/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/wage-earners/clive-bell/", "name": "Wage Earners Quotes by Clive Bell", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/wage-earners/clive-bell/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e4/clive-bell-20932_class_do-not-mistake-a-crowd-of-big-wage-earne_1400664.png" }, "description": "1 Wage Earners quotes by Clive Bell. 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