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Kenneth Clark
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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
#Time
#Life
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,
British
Author
#People
#May
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
Kenneth Clark,
British
Author
#Bombs
#Cynicism
#Disillusion
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
Kenneth Clark,
British
Author
#People
#Achievement
#Church
#Impulses
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,
British
Author
#Architecture
#Man
#Opera
#Inventions
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,
British
Author
#Art
#Feeling
#Morals
#Shadow
Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.
Kenneth Clark,
British
Author
#Children
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
Kenneth Clark,
British
Author
#Success
#War