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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 great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak of it as a drama. It is the most literary of all great pictures, one of the few of which the effect may largely be conveyed - can even be enhanced - by description (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 (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
The great artist takes what he needs (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters. (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible. (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion. (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one’s inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire. (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one’s inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
His long struggle with physical passion was almost over, and, as with many other great sensualists, its place had been taken by an obsession with death (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art (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 (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 (Kenneth Clark Quotes)
Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings (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 (Kenneth Clark Quotes)