Kenneth Clark

Naissance 1903 · Décès 1983

Originaire de London, England, United Kingdom · Nationalité : United Kingdom · Écrit des essais et documents

English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster

Citations

“Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak of it as a drama. It is the most literary of all great pictures, one of the few of which the effect may largely be conveyed — can even be enhanced — by description.”
Leonardo da VinciEn anglais
“Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.”
Leonardo da VinciEn anglais
“One musn’t overrate the culture of what used to be called “top people” before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.”
Civilisation, Chapter 13En anglais
“It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.”
Civilisation, Chapter 13En anglais
“The great artist takes what he needs.”
Civilisation, Chapter 5En anglais

Les livres de Kenneth Clark dans l'ordre de parution, de The Gothic Revival (1928) à The Art of Humanism (1981).