Famous Quotes / Clive Bell
10 Quotations by Clive Bell
- 1. A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and ...
- 2. All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
- 3. Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aest ...
- 4. Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
- 5. For, to appreciate a work of art we need bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its ideas ...
- 6. It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.
- 7. Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there c ...
- 8. There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the le ...
- 9. We all agree now - by we I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. ...
- 10. We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.