Quote by Clive Bell
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from cir

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

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Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. – Clive Bell

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Age
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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

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Art
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Religion
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Politics in America is the binding secular religion. – Theodore White

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Religion

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. – Galileo Galilei

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Religion

So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I dont live my life that way, and I dont feel thats what Bahaullah teaches. – Rainn Wilson

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Religion

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments. – Cliff Stearns

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Religion

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George Clooneys Ides of March could be the most under-appreciated movie of the year. In 20 years theyre gonna go back and say, Oh, that was American politics in that time period. I follow politics, I love it, and that movie is so authentic. – Harvey Weinstein

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Love is the river of life in the world. – Henry Ward Beecher

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