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Ideas of Clive Bell, by Text
[British, fl. 1914, Writer on aesthetics, and prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group.]
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p.615
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Only artists can discern significant form; other people must look to art to find it [Gardner]
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I.I
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p.5
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23921
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Our feeling for natural beauty is different from the aesthetic emotion of art
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I.I
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p.6
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23922
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The word 'beauty' leads to confusion, because it denotes distinct emotions
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I.I
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p.11
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23923
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Visual form can create a sublime mental state
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I.III
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p.20
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23924
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Maybe significant form gives us a feeling for ultimate reality
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I.III
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p.22
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Mere copies of pictures are not significant - unless the copies are very exact
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I.III
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p.23
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Art is distinguished by its aesthetic emotion, which produces appropriate form
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I.III
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p.24
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Aestheticism invites artist to create beauty, but with no indication of how to do it
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I.III
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p.25
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23928
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Good art produces exaltation and detachment
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II.I
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p.29
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23929
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We only see landscapes as artistic if we ignore their instrumental value
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II.I
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p.31
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23930
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Religion sees infinite value in some things, and irrelevance in the rest
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II.II
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p.36
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23931
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Significant form is the essence of art, which I believe expresses an emotion about reality
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II.II
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p.37
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23932
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Art is the expression of an emotion for ultimate reality
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II.III
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p.41
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23933
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Aesthetic contemplation is the best and most intense mental state
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II.III
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p.43
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Only artistic qualities matter in art, because they also have the highest moral value
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III.I
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p.48
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23934
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The only expression art could have is the emotion resulting from pure form
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IV.III
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p.88
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23935
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Aesthetic experience is an exaltation which increases the possibilities of life
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p.17
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p.119
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20434
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'Form' is visual relations, and it is 'significant' if it moves us aesthetically; art needs both [Feagin]
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