A Quote by Clive Bell

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.

Clive Bell

Quote Topics

Cezanne Christopher Columbus Continent Form New

Quote Author

Clive Bell
English - Critic
September 16, 1881 - September 18, 1964

Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.

Peter Lewis Allen

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.

Paul Theroux

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.

John Waters

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round.

Ira Gershwin

Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?

Pablo Neruda

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Margot Asquith

The search for the new black is one of the most elusive quests known to man. It's rumored that Christopher Columbus once searched for the new black and simply gave up. Yet every season we are convinced that some magical chromatic fabric will usurp black as the king of fashion, only to realize later that black still reigns supreme.

Ashton Kutcher

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

Mark Twain

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

James Joyce

People have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner.

Rush Limbaugh

America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life -- a life that should be new in freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.

Immortal Technique

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Saying there's a silence is a bit like if Columbus, looking to discover a new continent, only sailed 10 miles off the coast of Spain before turning back to say, 'Nothing out there!'

Seth Shostak

I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.