Quotes by Clive Bell - Page 1

Comfort came in with the middle classes.
Clive Bell / Art Critic
Class
Comfort
Middle
Classes
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Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
Clive Bell / Art Critic
Age
Genius
Inevitable
Worship
Sign
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Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.
Clive Bell / Art Critic
Cezanne
Columbus
Discovery
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Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.
Clive Bell / Art Critic
Work
Class
Mistake
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Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
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Leisure
Mistake
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Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.
Clive Bell / Art Critic
Art
Details
Reality
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It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
Clive Bell / Art Critic
Art
Appeals
Eternal
Great Art
Mark
Appeal
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We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.
Clive Bell / Art Critic
Art
Feelings
Mean
Feeling
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All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
Clive Bell / Art Critic
Art
Agree
Emotion
Peculiar
People
Provoked
Sensitive
Works
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Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.
Clive Bell / Art Critic
Art
Men
Two
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It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.
Clive Bell / Art Critic
Form
Reality
Significant
Ultimate
Catch
Follow
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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 / Art Critic
Aesthetic
Degrees
Emotion
Function
Trying
Account
Conceive
Critic
Degree
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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 / Art Critic
Art
Aesthetic
Ecstasy
Emotion
World
Forms
Lead
Inexhaustible
Road
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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 / Art Critic
Art
Quality
Degrees
Possessing
Worthless
Altogether
Exist
Degree
Least
No Work
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The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.
Clive Bell / Art Critic
Art
Emotion
Peculiar
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It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.
Clive Bell / Art Critic
Color
Mixing
Shapes
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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 / Art Critic
Art
Air
Complicated
Human Mind
Rose
Strange
Visible
Above
Activities
Bosom
Product
Result
Similarly
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Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo.... In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of which great grownup babies are expected to hide their eyes.
Clive Bell / Art Critic
Baby
Eye
Sight
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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 / Art Critic
Art
Family
Religion
Aesthetic
Ecstasy
Mean
Mind
Rapture
Religious
States
Two
Alliance
Between
Circumstance
Escape
Means
Roads
Similar
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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 / Art Critic
Art
Agree
Beautiful
Intelligent
Mean
Sixty
Art Work Beautiful
Work Art Beautiful
Intelligent People
Neither
Roses
Something Else
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The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate a work of art, we must bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its affairs and ideas, no familiarity with its emotions.
Clive Bell / Art Critic
Appreciation
Art
Smile
Appreciate
Ideas
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Let the artist have just enough to eat, and the tools of this trade: ask nothing of him. Materially make the life of the artist sufficiently miserable to be unattractive, and no-one will take to art save those in whom the divine daemon is absolute.
Clive Bell / Art Critic
Art
Tools
Unattractive
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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 / Art Critic
Believe
Convince
Convince Us
Justice
Liberty
Reason
Recognition
Three
Questions
Open
Effective
Fundamental
Necessarily
Truths
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Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce.
Clive Bell / Art Critic
Art
Men
Saint
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What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way; certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations of lines and colors, these aesthetically moving forms, I call ‘Significant Form’; and ‘Significant Form’ is the one quality common to all works of visual art.
Clive Bell / Art Critic
Art
Quality
Color
Moving
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It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that it awakens are independent of time and place, because its kingdom is not of this world. To those who have and hold a sense of the significance of form what does it matter whether the forms that move them were created in Paris the day before yesterday or in Babylon fifty centuries ago? 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 / Art Critic
Art
Smile
Independent
Moving
Paris
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