Author: Clive Bell

Quotes

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

- 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

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

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

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