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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 similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind. - Clive Bell Quotes

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 similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy. - Clive Bell Quotes

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

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

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. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. - Clive Bell Quotes

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. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open. - Clive Bell Quotes

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

Convince English Critic

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We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

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. - Clive Bell Quotes

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.

Art English Critic

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. - Clive Bell Quotes

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Age And Aging English Critic

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal. - Clive Bell Quotes

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

For, to appreciate a work of art we need bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its ideas and affairs, no familiarity with its emotions. Art transports us from the world of man's activity to a world of aesthetic exaltation. For a moment we are shut off from human interests; our anticipations and memories are arrested; we are lifted above the stream of life. - Clive Bell Quotes

For, to appreciate a work of art we need bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its ideas and affairs, no familiarity with its emotions. Art transports us from the world of man's activity to a world of aesthetic exaltation. For a moment we are shut off from human interests; our anticipations and memories are arrested; we are lifted above the stream of life.

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