Clive Bell Quotes

Clive Bell

Clive Bell

English Critic

Born: Sep 16, 1881

Died: Sep 18, 1964

Aesthetic Art Degree People Rose Work

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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

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

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

Art People Emotion Provoked Sensitive Agree Works Peculiar

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

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

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

Class Mistake Big Crowd Leisure

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

Reality Sense Significant Would Follow Catch Ultimate Behind Form Which

Comfort came in with the middle classes. Clive Bell

Classes Comfort Came Middle

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

Work Art Feeling Other Our Than Means

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