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«Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable»
«We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.»
«Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.»
«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»
Author: Kenneth Clark
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Actors and acting
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abstract, abstract art, arouse, Bad art, erotic, faintest, nude, nudes, spectator, The Spectator, vestige
«People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.»
«A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.»
Author: Kenneth Clark
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alight, alighted, alights, consuming, continuously, vitalize, vitalizes, vitalizing
«The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.»
Author: Kenneth Clark
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Achievement
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Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholic churches, civilizing, harmonize, harmonized, harmonizes, harmonizing, impulses, lay in, The Catholic
«To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.»
Author: Kenneth Clark
«All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war»
Author: Kenneth Clark
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Civilization
«Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!»
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