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“It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that it awakens are independent of time and place, because its kingdom is not of this world. To those who have and hold a sense of the significance of form what does it matter whether the forms that move them were created in Paris the day before yesterday or in Babylon fifty centuries ago? The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.”

Quote by Clive Bell

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Clive Bell, born on September 16, 1881, and died on September 18, 1964, was a British art critic. He is considered one of the most influential art critics of the early 20th century, known for his unique insights into the form and visual aesthetics of art. more

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