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This quote is just one of 9 total Clive Bell quotes in our collection. Clive Bell is known for saying '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.' 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 '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.