Kenneth Clark Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Kenneth Clark:
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
~Kenneth Clark
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We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
~Kenneth Clark
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To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
~Kenneth Clark
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A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.
~Kenneth Clark
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All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
~Kenneth Clark
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The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
~Kenneth Clark
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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
~Kenneth Clark
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Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.
~Kenneth Clark
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