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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
Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.
— Kenneth Clark
As I have said, it may be difficult to define civilization, but it isn't so difficult to recognize barbarism.
— Kenneth Clark
Look at this charming donkey!
— Kenneth Clark
All color is no color.
— Kenneth Clark
The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon.
— Kenneth Clark
Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well.
— Kenneth Clark
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
I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.
— Kenneth Clark
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
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
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable ... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!
— Kenneth Clark
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
— Kenneth Clark
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
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
— Kenneth Clark
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
A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.
— Kenneth Clark
The great artist takes what he needs.
— Kenneth Clark
In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
— Kenneth Clark
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
The moral and intellectual failure of Marxism has left us with no alternative to heroic materialism, and that isn't enough.
— Kenneth Clark
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
Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.
— Kenneth Clark
Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.
— Kenneth Clark
Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.
— Kenneth Clark
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
— Kenneth Clark
