Quotes by : Kenneth Clark

It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight....

Look at this charming donkey!

What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I....

In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. She....

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have....

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as affectively as by bombs.

I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence,....

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.