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  Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

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  It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

• Clive Bell:

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• Clive Bell:

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• Clive Bell:

  There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the l

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  We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a ros

• Clive Bell:

  We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

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