Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself. — Kenneth Clark Art Copy Share Image
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. — Kenneth Clark Based Copy Share Image
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. — Kenneth Clark Bombs Copy Share Image
Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society. — Kenneth Clark Civil rights Copy Share Image
Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it. — Kenneth Clark Destroyed Copy Share Image
Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it. — Kenneth Clark Looks Copy Share Image
We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters. — Kenneth Clark Brother Copy Share Image
Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is… — Kenneth Clark Art Copy Share Image
A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it… — Kenneth Clark Burning Copy Share Image
The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our… — Kenneth Clark Analogies Copy Share Image
I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to… — Kenneth Clark Adequate Copy Share Image
I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible. — Kenneth Clark Believe Copy Share Image
Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance. — Kenneth Clark Articles Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark Art Copy Share Image
The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon. — Kenneth Clark Built Copy Share Image
The illustrator is essentially a reporter: his subjects come from the outside, lit by a flash. A subject comes to the classical… — Kenneth Clark Art Copy Share Image
Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak… — Kenneth Clark Composition Copy Share Image
The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable… — Kenneth Clark Achievement Copy Share Image
Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens… — Kenneth Clark Burden Copy Share Image
This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a… — Kenneth Clark Achievement Copy Share Image
The various parts of the body cannot be perceived as simple units and have no clear relationship to one another. In almost… — Kenneth Clark Art Copy Share Image
Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which… — Kenneth Clark Assumption Copy Share Image
I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and… — Kenneth Clark Believe Copy Share Image
“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 Civilisation Copy Share Image
“At certain epochs, man has felt conscious of something about himself - body and spirit - which was outside the day-to-day struggle… — Kenneth Clark Beauty Copy Share Image
“In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. She had taught a race of tough… — Kenneth Clark Civilization Copy Share Image
“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole… — Kenneth Clark Believe Copy Share Image
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately… — Kenneth Clark Body Copy Share Image
Gargoyles were the complement to saints; Leonardo's caricatures were complementary to his untiring search for ideal beauty. And gargoyles were the expression… — Kenneth Clark Animal Copy Share Image
Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly,… — Kenneth Clark Activity Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark Accurate Copy Share Image
You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters. — Kenneth Clark Ideas Copy Share Image
All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. — Kenneth Clark Civilisation Copy Share Image
Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable. — Kenneth Clark Almost Copy Share Image
Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and… — Kenneth Clark Adherence Copy Share Image
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. — Kenneth Clark Achievement Copy Share Image
