"No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse……" — Kenneth Clarke
"No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals."
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Kenneth Clarke
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34 Quotes by Kenneth Clarke
Kenneth Clarke has 34 quotes on this site.
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With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of…
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I have never read it. You should not waste your time.
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I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get…
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Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place…
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The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself…
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The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty,…
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Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.
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I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe
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Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the…
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The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the…
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However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of…
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I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want…
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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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