To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life. — Kenneth Clark Defying 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
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight! — Kenneth Clark Collectors Copy Share Image
Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless… — Kenneth Clark Agency Copy Share Image
It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew… — Kenneth Clark Drawing Copy Share Image
A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be… — Kenneth Clark Find Copy Share Image
The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt,… — Kenneth Clark Colony 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
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
Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society. — Kenneth Clark Civil rights Copy Share Image
Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt… — Kenneth Clark Beautiful 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
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. — Kenneth Clark Based 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
Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost… — Kenneth Clark Adapted 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
Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it. — Kenneth Clark Destroyed 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
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
“At this point I reveal myself in my true colours, as a stick-in-the-mud. I hold a number of beliefs that have been… — Kenneth Clark Brothers and sisters Copy Share Image
The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the… — Kenneth Clark Art 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
“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 Civilization Copy Share Image
Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable. — Kenneth Clark Almost Copy Share Image
