Art Quote by Kenneth Clark Download Open image “Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.” — Kenneth Clark ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art history Artist Hamlet Art History History Recreate Leonardo Leonardo Hamlet
“Leonardo had almost no schooling and could barely read Latin or do long division. His genius was of the type we can understand, even… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There have been, of course, many other insatiable polymaths, and even the Renaissance produced other Renaissance Men. But none painted the Mona Lisa, much… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Leonardo, with his profound knowledge of art, commenced various undertakings, many of which he never completed, because it appeared to him that the hand… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“Even some of his commissions that were completed, or almost so—Ginevra de’ Benci and the Mona Lisa, for example—were never delivered to clients. Leonardo… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“But I did learn from Leonardo how a desire to marvel about the world that we encounter each day can make each moment of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“such humble beginnings, where in his time his life would have been given no credence to be anything more than an illegitimate son, Leonardo… — Hourly History Copy Share Image
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“Leonardo became known in Milan not only for his talents but also for his good looks, muscular build, and gentle personal style. “He was… — Walter Isaacson 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
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 Image
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight! — Kenneth Clark 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 agency, have… — 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 about things… — Kenneth Clark 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 too late… — Kenneth Clark 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, and fear… — Kenneth Clark 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 certainty. — Kenneth Clark 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 upon human… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society. — Kenneth Clark 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 to be… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
