Alliances Quote by Clive Bell Download Open image “Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.” — Clive Bell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alliances Art Circumstances Ecstasy Journey Men Rapture Religion Religion and art Two Two roads
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life. — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of… — Albert Camus 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality. — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
“...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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“you cannot imagine a boundary line without any content, or a content without a boundary line.” — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians… — Walid Jumblatt Copy Share Image
I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul. — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and… — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I prayed for the first time in a very long time today. I explained to God that unless he wanted the Marxist-Islamic alliance and… — Anders Behring Breivik Copy Share Image
An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Clearly, gay marriage is on the top of the agenda right now. It's pretty amazing, considering where stuff was at when I was in… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image