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.
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family all… - Clive Bell
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family all…
- Clive Bell
Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo.... In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of wh… - Clive Bell
Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo.... In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of wh…
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 wi… - Clive Bell
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 wi…
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 … - 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 …
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class. - Clive Bell
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.
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… - Clive Bell
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…
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 bec… - Clive Bell
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 bec…
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal. - Clive Bell
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. - Clive Bell
We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.
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