More - Kenneth Clark Quotes

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

Kenneth Clark

 Bombs British Author

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

 British Author

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.

Kenneth Clark

 Experience

I don't think we're expecting anything big in the way of surf.

Kenneth Clark

 

Some of you have been injured, ... Some of you still have injuries.

Kenneth Clark

 

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable

Kenneth Clark

 Children

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

 Architecture British Author

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

Kenneth Clark

 Civilization

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

Kenneth Clark

 British Author