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Clive Bell quotes: 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.

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

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

Clive Bell quotes: Comfort came in with the middle classes.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

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

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

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

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

Clive Bell quotes: Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

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

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

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

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 quotes: Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.

Clive Bell quotes: It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

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

Clive Bell quotes: I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

Clive Bell quotes: Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

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