“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.” ThinkingFactsSpaceHavensMoonSubstitutesAdequateClearingSlums Author:Kenneth Clark
“Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be as precious and beautiful as the colours themselves. In fact, the colours themselves must be continuously modified and broken as part of the transition.” WholeFactsBeautifulFeltBrokenFineColourTransitionSubordinatesUnified Book:The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art
“Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.” GivingFactsOrderPleasureDesignDevotionCertaintyRecognitionAdherence Book:Landscape Painting Source: Landscape Painting
“The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers.” MenGivingHumansMayStatesFactsBodyDesireValuesOrderInterestingMankindObjectsCapableConceptsGainsEndureDelightContrarySensesRationalSensualMathematicalVagueHuman BodyReconcileFear Of The Unknown Author:Kenneth Clark
“Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental art a peculiar concentration and vitality. At some time in the ninth century one could have looked down the Seine and seen the prow of a Viking ship coming up the river. Looked at today in the British Museum, it is a powerful work of art; but to the mother of a family trying to settle down in her little hut, it would have seemed less agreeable - as menacing to her civilisation as the periscope of a nuclear submarine.” GivingTryingLittlesArtFactsTodayMotherPowerfulCenturyRiversBritishNuclearShipsSettlingConcentrationWorks Of ArtMuseumsPeculiarPrimitiveVitalityGreat WorkCivilisationSettling DownVikingsHutsSubmarinesBritish Museum Author:Kenneth Clark
“However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion.” MayPhilosophyFactsSpiritEmotionVirtueRevolutionRepublicanRemainsVariousRationalFixedPhasesGrandeurFrench RevolutionClassicism Book:The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art
