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Clive Bell

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


— Clive Bell


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All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.


— Clive Bell


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We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.


— Clive Bell


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Comfort came in with the middle classes.


— Clive Bell


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Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.


— Clive Bell


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Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.


— Clive Bell


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It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.


— Clive Bell


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


— Clive Bell


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


— Clive Bell


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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.


— Clive Bell


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They lived at Cleve House in Seend near Melksham in Wiltshire which was adorned with Squire Bell's many hunting trophies. She was informed by her mother Vanessa just prior to her marriage and shortly after her brother Julian's death that in fact Duncan Grant was her biological father. Clive lived in London but often spent long stretches of time at the idyllic farmhouse of Charleston where Vanessa lived with Duncan and her three children by Clive and Duncan.

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