“Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.” GivingShouldArtSpiritEnergyPleasureIncreaseRelate Author:Kenneth Clark
“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.” IfsShouldDoeArtFeelingsMoralFailingShadowAbstractEroticSpectatorsAbstract Art Book:The nude: a study in ideal form Source: The nude: a study in ideal form
“No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with another human is so fundamental a part of our nature that our judgement of what is known as 'pure form' is inevitably influenced by it, and one of the difficulties of the nude as a subject for art is that these instincts cannot be hidden.” ShouldHumansArtFeelingsFormDesireUnitedKnownFailingSubjectsPureArt IsDifficultyFundamentalsInstinctJudgementAbstractEroticSpectators Book:The nude: a study in ideal form Source: The nude: a study in ideal form
“The various parts of the body cannot be perceived as simple units and have no clear relationship to one another. In almost every detail the body is not the shape that art has led us to believe it should be.” ShouldBelieveArtBodySimpleClearShapesDetailsVariousUnitsParts Of The Body Book:The nude: a study in ideal form Source: The nude: a study in ideal form
