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Clive Bell Quotes: 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.


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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.

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



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.



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.



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.

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.



Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.



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.

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.



Comfort came in with the middle classes.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.



Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.



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.



It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.





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