Collectors Quote by Kenneth Clark

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

— Kenneth Clark

All color is no color.

— Kenneth Clark

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

— Kenneth Clark

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

Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the…

— Kenneth Clark