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Clive Bell [1881-1964] English

Rank: 105
Critic, Art critic

Arthur Clive Heward Bell was an English art critic, associated with formalism and the Bloomsbury Group. Bell died, aged 83, in London.

Art, Family, Religion, Work

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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.	Art, Work	101
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.	Art, Family, Religion	102
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.	Art	103
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.		104
It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.		105
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.		106
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.		107
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.		108
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.		109
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.		110
Comfort came in with the middle classes.		111
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.		112
We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.		113
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.		114

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