Comfort came in with the middle classes.
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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
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.
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
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
Clive Bell
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
Clive Bell
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
Clive Bell
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