Clive Bell > Quotes

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

“Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce.”
― Clive Bell 1914

“The critic can affect my aesthetic theories only by affecting my aesthetic experience. All systems of aesthetics must be based on personal experience--that is to say, they must be subjective.”
― Clive Bell, Art

“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”
― Clive Bell, الفن

“you cannot imagine a boundary line without any content, or a content without a boundary line.”
― Clive Bell, Art

“Significant Form" is the one quality common to all works of visual art.”
― Clive Bell, Art

“The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful; always it is irrelevant. For, to appreciate a work of art we need bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its ideas and affairs, no familiarity with its emotions. Art”
― Clive Bell, Art

“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. The objects that provoke aesthetic emotion vary with each individual.”
― Clive Bell, Art