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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

Topics: Aesthetic Art Ecstasy Emotion Forms Inexhaustible Lead Road Same World

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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

Topics: Altogether Art Cannot Degree Exist Least Must No Work Possessing Quality Some Which Without Work Worthless

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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.

~Clive Bell

Topics: Agree Art Beautiful Because Else Intelligent Intelligent People Like Mean Neither Now People Rose Roses Sixty Something Something Else Themselves Work Works

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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

Topics: Above Activities Air Art Bosom Complicated Earth Human Human Mind Mind Product Result Rose Similarly Strange Visible Work

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: September 16th, 1881

Died: September 18th, 1964

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