"I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic."

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Source : 'Art' (1914) pt. 3 ch. 3

Clive Bell

#Trying Quotes #Degrees Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“Congratulations to the new Wayne State men and women's rugby team for winning their inaugural victories on their very first weekend. I am sure there will plenty more victories for the "Children of the Corn", in the games to come.”
“We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.”
“I remember my dad asking me one time, and it's something that has always stuck with me: 'Why not you, Russ?' You know, why not me? Why not me in the Super Bowl? So in speaking to our football team earlier in the year, I said, 'Why not us? Why can't we be there?'”
“I dont know what could possibly distract three pigs enough so that you can get away." Sabrina thought for a moment then grinned. "I know exactly what to do.”
“I don't think I ever said, "I want to be an actress." But for Halloween, I dressed up as a movie star from when I was seven to when I was twelve. The costume was always a long dress, with makeup, and my hair curled, and jewelry on. And the movie star was always Jenny McCarthy. So right there you could see a little pattern.”
“Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.”
“It's often said that elephants are the most human of animals - there's something comical about their acquiescence, and tragic also. The long elephant poem - I was trying to write from the point of view of someone who had been seduced by the logic of his punishers and who, in a kind of awful way, could reproduce the very logic that had put him in this predicament in the first place. And maybe, in some kind of minor way, that's something I feel about myself, or maybe about all selves, that they fall in love with the thing that oppresses them.”

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“While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.”

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