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Quote by Clive Bell
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated going

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

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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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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. – John Ruskin

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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oysters autobiography. – Federico Fellini

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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. – Eugene Delacroix

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The true art of memory is the art of attention. – Samuel Johnson

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