“What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight! — Kenneth Clark Copy Share
Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share
It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share
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… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share
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… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share
Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share
Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share
Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share
This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share
