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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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art. – Baltasar Gracian

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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want. – Jennifer Aniston

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