Beauty Quote by Clive Bell

“Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.”

— Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

Every time we do anything artistic, the way it's perceived is always going to be different from the way that we had intended it…

— Simon Helberg

“All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.”

— Susan Sontag

Therefore, the quality of one's art is determined most by the interpretation of the art, rather than the thought of the artist himself, for…

— SangFroid Stalker

Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and…

— Robert Genn

“Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be.”

— Alan Dapre

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind…

— Walter Pater

“As to “Aesthetic Considerations,” Ansel counseled, “A photograph that is merely a superficial record of the subject fails as an aesthetic expression of that…

— Mary Street Alinder

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have,…

— Bertrand Russell

“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

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

— Jimenez Lai