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Kenneth Clark quotes

British Author July 13, 1903 – May 12, 1983

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Kenneth Clark quote: "To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is..."
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life. Kenneth Clark
At certain epochs, man has felt conscious of something about himself - body and spirit - which was outside the day-to-day struggle for existence and the night-to-night struggle with fear; and he has felt the need to develop these qualities of thought and feeling so that they might approach as nearly as possible to an ideal of perfection - reason, justice, physical beauty, all of them in equilibrium. He has managed to satisfy this need in various ways - through myths, through dance and song,... Kenneth Clark
I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history. Kenneth Clark
Kenneth Clark quote: "Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well."
Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well. Kenneth Clark
Kenneth Clark quote: "All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on..."
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. Kenneth Clark
It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight of a lot of books gives me the hope that I may some day read them, which sometimes develops into the belief that I have read them. Kenneth Clark
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. Kenneth Clark
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. Kenneth Clark
Kenneth Clark quote: "A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you..."
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 to know. Kenneth Clark
Kenneth Clark quote: "Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost..."
Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable. Kenneth Clark
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. Kenneth Clark
Kenneth Clark quote: "We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as..."
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. Kenneth Clark

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