Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

— Clive Bell

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.

— Clive Bell

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

— Clive Bell

The forms of art are inexhaustible but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

— Clive Bell