Sir Kenneth McKenzie Clark

Sir Kenneth McKenzie Clark (1903 – 1983), Baron Clark, was a British art historian, museum director, and broadcaster.

Wisdom & Quotes

• All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

- Civilization

• Machines; from the Maxim gun to the computer; are for the most part means by which a minority can keep free men in subjection.

- Ibid.

• Opera,... is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

- Ibid.

• The all-male religions have produced no religious imagery... The great religious art of the world is deeply involved with the female principle.

- Ibid.

• Television is a form of soliloquy.

- in the Guardian, November 26, 1977

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