Kenneth Clark Quotes about Giving

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Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.

Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.

Kenneth Clark

Art, Giving, Energy

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.

Kenneth Clark

Men, Order, Giving

"The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form" by Kenneth Clark, (Ch. I), 1951.

Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.

Kenneth Clark

Order, Giving, Design

Kenneth Clark (1950). “Landscape Painting”

It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight of a lot of books gives me the hope that I may some day read them, which sometimes develops into the belief that I have read them.

Kenneth Clark

Book, Sight, Giving

Kenneth Clark Quotes about Giving

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