Age Quote by Clive Bell Download Open image “Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.” — Clive Bell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Genius Inevitable Worship
“...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age…” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it to some particular studies. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“For what is genius, I ask you, but the capacity to be obsessed? ...We have all been geniuses, you and I; but sooner or… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us… — Martin Filler 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
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
