Clive Bell
Clive Bell
Arthur Clive Heward Bellwas an English art critic, associated with formalism and the Bloomsbury Group. Bell died, aged 83, in London...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth16 September 1881
believe convince-us justice
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 is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
art air rose
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.
art world emotion
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
art men occupation
Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce.
art mean feelings
We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.
art reality details
Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.
art quality degrees
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.
age genius worship
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
art men two
Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.
art people peculiar
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.