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
Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit. — Kenneth Clark Art 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 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 Artist 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 Image
I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos. — Kenneth Clark 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
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
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like… — Kenneth Clark Alexandria 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
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
Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless… — Kenneth Clark 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
Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise… — Kenneth Clark Age Copy Share Image
“It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that… — Kenneth Clark Belief 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
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark 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
“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
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
The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great.… — Kenneth Clark Abstract 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 Copy Share Image
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any… — Kenneth Clark Architecture Copy Share Image
A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike. — Kenneth Clark Damage 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
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
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
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
Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and… — Kenneth Clark 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
