Kenneth Clark Quotes
Top 34 wise famous quotes and sayings by Kenneth Clark
Kenneth Clark Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.
As I have said, it may be difficult to define civilization, but it isn't so difficult to recognize barbarism.
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.
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.
I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.
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.
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable ... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
Art ... must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.
A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.
In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
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 moral and intellectual failure of Marxism has left us with no alternative to heroic materialism, and that isn't enough.
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.