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Kenneth Clark Quotes

«Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable»
Author: Kenneth Clark | Keywords: invariably, treated
«We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.»
Author: Kenneth Clark | Keywords: bombs, disillusion, effectively
«Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.»
Author: Kenneth Clark | Keywords: foreseen, Gothic, Gothic architecture, inventions, logical
«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»
Author: Kenneth Clark | About: Actors and acting | Keywords: abstract, abstract art, arouse, Bad art, erotic, faintest, nude, nudes, spectator, The Spectator, vestige
«People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.»
Author: Kenneth Clark | Keywords: Alexandria, barbarism, suggests
«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.»
Author: Kenneth Clark | Keywords: alight, alighted, alights, consuming, continuously, vitalize, vitalizes, vitalizing
«The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.»
Author: Kenneth Clark | About: Achievement | Keywords: Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholic churches, civilizing, harmonize, harmonized, harmonizes, harmonizing, impulses, lay in, The Catholic
«To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.»
Author: Kenneth Clark
«All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war»
Author: Kenneth Clark | About: Civilization
«Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!»
Author: Kenneth Clark | About: Greed, Principles | Keywords: disreputable, ruthless, tyrannical
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