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
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
Kenneth Clark
Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.
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
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
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
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
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
Kenneth Clark
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