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" All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. "
Emotion
People
Sensitive
" A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind. "
Art
Earth
Mind
" Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. "
Religion
Roads
Art
" Comfort came in with the middle classes. "
Classes
Middle
Comfort
" Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class. "
Class
Crowd
Leisure
" Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. "
Genius
Inevitable
Sign
" It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal. "
Universal
Art
Great
" It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality. "
Reality
Ultimate
Behind
" I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. "
Will
Try
Emotion
" Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open. "
Questions
Recognition
Believe
" The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy. "
Emotion
Aesthetic
Art
" 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. "
Degree
Art
Work
" We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. "
Beautiful
Now
Work
" We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. "
Feeling
Art
Than
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