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“What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way; certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations of lines and colors, these aesthetically moving forms, I call ‘Significant Form’; and ‘Significant Form’ is the one quality common to all works of visual art.”

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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