How does Bell present views that both favor and put down the average viewer of art?

In his writings, Clive Bell comes across as slightly high flown, to put it mildly, yet his lenience to accept that everyone can experience art is unlike many who share his same opinions about the realm of art.  

"They have their moments of pure ecstasy; but the moments are short and unsure.  Soon they fall back into the world of human interests and feel emotions, good no doubt, but inferior" (Bell, 268).

In this section Bell takes on a more Platonic view of ill equipped art observers, which seems as if it fits in more with his theories on the expertise it takes to truly and consistently recognize and judge the significant form, or absence thereof, in art.  He acknowledges a slight experience, but not one nearly as fulfilling as one of a seasoned artist or art critic.  

"For, to appreciate a work of art we need bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its ideas and affairs, no familiarity with its emotions" (Bell, 266).  

While Bell also implies a good understanding of the art itself to experience the aesthetic emotion to its fullest extent, this quotation takes a much more empathetic approach to the casual observer of art.  While the experience may be fleeting or inchoate, Bell acknowledges the ability of anyone to experience art, to at least a certain degree, unlike many of his predecessors.  He allows any person of any intellectual level to have the credit of being able to experience art, as it is truly an experience that relies on the individual emotions of the viewer, and little else.