Art Quote by Clive Bell

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

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

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

— Clive Bell

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

— Clive Bell

“...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

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A…

— Clive Bell

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.

— Clive Bell

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

“you cannot imagine a boundary line without any content, or a content without a boundary line.”

— Clive Bell

“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

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

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal…… Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that…

— Clive Bell