It would follow that ‘significant form’ was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality. — Clive Bell
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. — Clive Bell
We all agree now – by “we” I mean intelligent people under sixty – that a work of art is like a rose. — Clive Bell
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth — Clive Bell
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which — Clive Bell