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Art Quotes by 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, and…
- We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
- 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.…
- It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
- The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
- 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.
- We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.
- Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov