The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
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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
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.
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Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
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It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
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Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
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