Creative Quotations from . . .
Clive Bell
(1881-1964) born on
Sep 16
English art critic. He helped gain popular acceptance in Great Britain for the art of the Post-Impressionists during the early 20th century.
 
   
F
Genius-worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

R
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.
A
It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.
N
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
K
"I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Art," 1914."
R: ""Civilization," Ch. 5."
A: ""Art," Pt. I, Ch. 3."
N: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
K: ""Art," Pt. II, Ch. 3"



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