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This quote is just one of 9 total Clive Bell quotes in our collection. Clive Bell is known for saying 'It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.' as well as some of the following quotes.
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.
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.
This quote is just one of 9 total Clive Bell quotes in our collection. Clive Bell is known for saying 'It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.' as well as some of the following quotes.