The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art. Clive Bell More Quotes by Clive Bell More Quotes From Clive Bell All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. Clive Bell peculiar people art Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. Clive Bell genius worship age We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. Clive Bell beautiful mean art 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 religious mean art
