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| Clive Bellb: East Shefford, England, Aug 16, 1881 d: London, England, Sep 18, 1964 English. Critic. Member of the Bloomsbury Group; wrote on art and literature: Art, 1914, Since Cezanne, 1922.
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. All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of 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. Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class. It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality. 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.There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless. 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.We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. |
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