All Clive Bell Quotes
- 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… Activities
- We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose… Agree
- The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate a work of… Affair
- 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… All
- It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality. Behind
- Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have… Art
- The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works… Aesthetics
- 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… Aesthetic
- Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class. Big
- I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. Account
- All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. Agree
- Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance.… Aesthetic
- Comfort came in with the middle classes. Came
- It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal. Appeal
- The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy. Aesthetic
- 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. Altogether
- We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. Art
- It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the… Becomes
- Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form. Cezanne
- Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art. Art
- Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. Age