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Kenneth Clark quotes: Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

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 quotes: Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

Kenneth Clark quotes: As I have said, it may be difficult to define civilization, but it isn't so difficult to recognize barbarism.

As I have said, it may be difficult to define civilization, but it isn't so difficult to recognize barbarism.

Kenneth Clark quotes: Look at this charming donkey!

Look at this charming donkey!

Kenneth Clark quotes: Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

Kenneth Clark quotes: One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.

One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.

Kenneth Clark quotes: All color is no color.

All color is no color.

Kenneth Clark quotes: The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon.

The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon.

Kenneth Clark quotes: Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well.

Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well.

Kenneth Clark quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

Kenneth Clark quotes: It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well.

It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well.

Kenneth Clark quotes: Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.

Kenneth Clark quotes: Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable ... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable ... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

Kenneth Clark quotes: The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

Kenneth Clark quotes: Art ... must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.

Art ... must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.

Kenneth Clark quotes: To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

Kenneth Clark quotes: Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.

Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.

Kenneth Clark quotes: A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.

A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.

Kenneth Clark quotes: The great artist takes what he needs.

The great artist takes what he needs.

Kenneth Clark quotes: In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

Kenneth Clark quotes: The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.

The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.

Kenneth Clark quotes: You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

Kenneth Clark quotes: The moral and intellectual failure of Marxism has left us with no alternative to heroic materialism, and that isn't enough.

The moral and intellectual failure of Marxism has left us with no alternative to heroic materialism, and that isn't enough.

Kenneth Clark quotes: Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

Kenneth Clark quotes: I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to clearing up the slums.

I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to clearing up the slums.

Kenneth Clark quotes: Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.

Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.

Kenneth Clark quotes: Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

Kenneth Clark quotes: Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

Kenneth Clark quotes: Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.

Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.

Kenneth Clark quotes: We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.

We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.

Kenneth Clark quotes: We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

Kenneth Clark quotes: Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

Kenneth Clark quotes: All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.