The various parts of the body cannot be perceived as simple units and have no clear relationship to one another. In almost every detail the body is not the shape that art has led us to believe it should be. — 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
