Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness. — Kenneth Clark Bears Copy Share Image
However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue,… — Kenneth Clark Classicism Copy Share Image
One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they… — Kenneth Clark Charming Copy Share Image
In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men. — Kenneth Clark Action 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 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
Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who… — Kenneth Clark Art Copy Share Image
I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an… — Kenneth Clark British 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
The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become… — Kenneth Clark Amplify Copy Share Image
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself. — Kenneth Clark Art Copy Share Image
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be… — Kenneth Clark Abstract 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
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
“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
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
We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes… — Kenneth Clark Art Copy Share Image
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the… — Kenneth Clark Abstract Copy Share Image
