85 Quotes by Kenneth Clark

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

William will carry on in his job is my personal prediction. But I don't think it's sensible at all to talk about these things.

We must return the party to a more balanced position on Europe that can sensibly embrace a broad range of views,

To say that our troops are simply doing security patrols tells only half the story. They are helping residents recover belongings and they are reporting their concerns and needs to the appropriate authorities.

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who have been very little influenced by social systems, have always responded instinctively to latent assumptions about the shape of the universe. The incomprehensibility of our new cosmos seems to me, ultimately, to be the reason for the chaos of modern art.