الفن Quotes

“The critic can affect my aesthetic theories only by affecting my aesthetic experience. All systems of aesthetics must be based on personal experience--that is to say, they must be subjective.”
― Clive Bell, Art

“يجب ألا نتذوق أو نقيم العمل الفني من وجهة نظر اهتماماتناالشخصية أو اعتقاداتنا أو عواطفنا أو تحيزاتنا الثقافية، بل من وجة نظر العمل نفسه وبناءً على الصفات أو الكيفيات الكامنة في الشكل الدال. فالشكل الدال وحده هو أساس الخبرة الجمالية ومصدرها. وبعبارة اخرى. علينا أن نتذوق العمل الفني موضوعياً، من ذاته ولأجل ذاته. هذه المقولة هي أساس ما يسمى عادة "النزهة الجمالية”
― Clive Bell, الفن

“you cannot imagine a boundary line without any content, or a content without a boundary line.”
― Clive Bell, Art

“What is the significance of anything as an end in itself? What is that which is left when we have stripped a thing of all its associations, of all its significance as a means? What is left to provoke our emotion? What but that which philosophers used to call "the thing in itself" and now call "ultimate reality"? Shall I be altogether fantastic in suggesting, what some of the profoundest thinkers have believed, that the significance of the thing in itself is the significance of Reality? Is it possible that the answer to my question, "Why are we so profoundly moved by certain combinations of lines and colours?" should be, "Because artists can express in combinations of lines and colours an emotion felt for reality which reveals itself through line and colour"?”
― Clive Bell, Art

“Significant Form" is the one quality common to all works of visual art.”
― Clive Bell, Art

“The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful; always it is irrelevant. For, to appreciate a work of art we need bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its ideas and affairs, no familiarity with its emotions. Art”
― Clive Bell, Art

“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. The objects that provoke aesthetic emotion vary with each individual.”
― Clive Bell, Art