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.


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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.

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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.

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For, to appreciate a work of art we need bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its ideas and affairs, no familiarity with its emotions. Art transports us from the world of man's activity to a world of aesthetic exaltation. For a moment we are shut off from human interests; our anticipations and memories are arrested; we are lifted above the stream of life. -Clive Bell
188

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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154

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Clive Bell
154
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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It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

Clive Bell
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