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We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

~Clive Bell

Topics: Art Feeling Means Other Our Than Work

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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

Topics: Aesthetic Alliance Art Between Circumstance Ecstasy Escape Family Means Men Mind Rapture Religion Religious Roads Similar States Then Two Which

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Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

~Clive Bell

Topics: Big Class Crowd Leisure Mistake

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

~Clive Bell

Topics: Behind Catch Follow Form Reality Sense Significant Ultimate Which Would

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

~Clive Bell

Topics: Agree Art Emotion Peculiar People Sensitive Works

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Comfort came in with the middle classes.

~Clive Bell

Topics: Came Classes Comfort Middle

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Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

~Clive Bell

Topics: Age Genius Inevitable Sign Worship

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I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

~Clive Bell

Topics: Account Aesthetic Conceive Critic Degree Emotion Function Try Will

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

~Clive Bell

Topics: Appeal Art Eternal Great Great Art Mark Universal

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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

Topics: Believe Convince Effective Fundamental Good Liberty Like Necessarily Only Open Questions Reason Recognition Those Three True Truths Us Which Without

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: September 16th, 1881

Died: September 18th, 1964

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