Author: Clive Bell

Quotes

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

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

- Clive Bell

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

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

- Clive Bell

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.

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

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

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

- Clive Bell

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

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

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