Kenneth Clark Quotes

"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
(Related: People, May)

"We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs."
- Kenneth Clark
(Related: Bombs, Cynicism, Disillusion)

"The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people."
- Kenneth Clark
(Related: 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
(Related: Architecture, Inventions, Man, Opera)

"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
(Related: Art, Feeling, Morals, Shadow)

"Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable."
- Kenneth Clark
(Related: Children)

"All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war."
- Kenneth Clark
(Related: Success, War)