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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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…Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. – Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue,” in The Nineteenth Century: A Mont

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Its art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isnt about progress, and wants to – as Walt Whitman put it – contain multitudes. – Jerry Saltz

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My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb – where the word art never came up – to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it. – Jerry Saltz

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The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing. – Doris Humphrey

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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I dont deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but dont we just as often draw the wrong ones? – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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If you havent found it yet, keep looking. Dont settle. As with all matters of the heart, youll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. – Steve Jobs

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I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but Im learning how to deal with it. Thats why Ive chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel. – Jonathan Davis

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Great things are done when men and mountains meet. – William Blake

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