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Kenneth Clark Inspirational Quotes (34)

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Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.
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In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
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You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.
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One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called top people before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.
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Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography the good ones all welcomed it and used it.
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Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.
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Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak of it as a drama. It is the most literary of all great pictures, one of the few of which the effect may largely be conveyed - can even be enhanced - by description.
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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.
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Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.
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The illustrator is essentially a reporter: his subjects come from the outside, lit by a flash. A subject comes to the classical artist from inside, and when he discovers confirmation of it in the outside world he feels that it has been there all the time.
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