Logo
Quote by Kenneth Clark
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest invent

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. – Kenneth Clark

Other quotes by Kenneth Clark

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. – Kenneth Clark

Category:
Civilization
Author
Kenneth Clark
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
architecture
category

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although its difficult to quantify the attachment. – Tadao Ando

Category:
architecture

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, its completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. – Nick Clegg

Category:
architecture

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be – Curtis W. Fentress

Category:
architecture

I call architecture frozen music. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Category:
architecture

Random Quotes

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. – Marlene Dietrich

Category:
Superstition

New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene – the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When youre living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time. – Dylan McDermott

Category:
cool

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because thats what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school. – Mindy Kaling

Category:
Success

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me. – Jada Pinkett Smith

Category:
Trust