Clive Bell Quote

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.


Art (ed. Perigee, 1958)


There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.