All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. Clive Bell Read Quote
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open. Clive Bell Read Quote
It would follow that ‘significant form’ was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality. Clive Bell Read Quote
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. Clive Bell Read Quote