“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
“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.” IfsHumansSpiritReadingRoomsWonderWrittenBritishEnormousMuseumsHuman SpiritBritish MuseumReading Room Book:Civilisation Source: Civilisation
“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
“This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces.” StatesWould BeSpiritForceAnimalResultsAchievementLibraryThemeBalancedCrushedAvalanches Book:The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art
