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.
About Kenneth Clark
Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark was a British art historian, museum director, and broadcaster. After running two important art galleries in the 1930s and 1940s, he came to wider public notice on television, presenting a succession of programmes on the arts from the 1950s to the 1970s, the largest and best known being the Civilisation series in 1969.
More quotes from Kenneth Clark
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster (1903-1983)
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster (1903-1983)
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster (1903-1983)
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.
English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster (1903-1983)
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster (1903-1983)
Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.
English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster (1903-1983)
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.
English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster (1903-1983)
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster (1903-1983)