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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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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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In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. – Edward Hopper

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To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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My painting does not come from the easel. – Jackson Pollock

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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. – Charles Horton Cooley

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