Kenneth Clark Quotes

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not ...

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as affectively as by bombs.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.

It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the ...

I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to viole...

What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I...

In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. Sh...

Look at this charming donkey!