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Psychologist

Kenneth Clark was a renowned psychologist, born on July 24, 1914, and passed away on May 1, 2005. He made significant contributions to the field of psychology, particularly in the areas of cognitive psychology and child psychology.

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Famous Kenneth Clark Quotes

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

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Book:Civilisation

Source: Civilisation

“Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.”

Ifs Children Treated

Book:Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power

Source: Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power

“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.”

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Book:The nude: a study in ideal form

Source: The nude: a study in ideal form

“I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.”

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Book:Civilisation

Source: Civilisation

“Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost all our favorite specimens of Greek sculpture, from the sixth century onward, were originally parts of compositions, and if we were faced with the complete group in which the Charioteer of Delphi was once a subsidiary figure, we might well experience a moment of revulsion. We have come to think of the fragment as more vivid, more concentrated, and more authentic.”

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Book:The nude: a study in ideal form

Source: The nude: a study in ideal form

“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.”

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Author:Kenneth Clark

About the Author

Born: July 24, 1914
Died: May 1, 2005
Known for: Psychologist
Quotes: 67

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