We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
From Clive Bell
We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
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.
Comfort came in with the middle classes.
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
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