Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. - Kenneth Clark
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
- Kenneth Clark
Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit. - Kenneth Clark
Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.
We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters. - Kenneth Clark
We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.
Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society. - Kenneth Clark
Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.
I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still … - Kenneth Clark
I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still …
I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I thin… - Kenneth Clark
I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I thin…
A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike. - Kenneth Clark
A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.
Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable. - Kenneth Clark
Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.
I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible. - Kenneth Clark
I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.
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