32 Quotes by Clive Bell

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.

...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.

يجب ألا نتذوق أو نقيم العمل الفني من وجهة نظر اهتماماتناالشخصية أو اعتقاداتنا أو عواطفنا أو تحيزاتنا الثقافية، بل من وجة نظر العمل نفسه وبناءً على الصفات أو الكيفيات الكامنة في الشكل الدال. فالشكل الدال وحده هو أساس الخبرة الجمالية ومصدرها. وبعبارة اخرى. علينا أن نتذوق العمل الفني موضوعياً، من ذاته ولأجل ذاته. هذه المقولة هي أساس ما يسمى عادة "النزهة الجمالية

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.

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

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.

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

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