Clive Bell – 3 Quotes

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3 Quotes by Clive Bell

 

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

– Clive Bell


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.

– Clive Bell


Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

– Clive Bell