85 Quotes by Kenneth Clark

As I have said, it may be difficult to define civilization, but it isn’t so difficult to recognize barbarism.

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.

This became Delacroix ’s theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces.

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.