Kenneth Clark
Kenneth Clark
Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark OM CH KCB FBAwas a British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians and aesthetes of his generation, writing a series of books that appealed to a wide public, while remaining a serious scholar. In 1969, he achieved international fame as the writer, producer and presenter of the BBC Television series Civilisation, which pioneered television documentary series combining expert personalized narration with lavish photography on location...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 July 1903
However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion.
Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.
In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.
You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.
I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to clearing up the slums.
Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.
It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well.
The great artist takes what he needs.
We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.
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.
Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.
Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.
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 of their masters.