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Kenneth Clark : Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself. # Arts and Artists # History and Historians # Death and Dying

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Emily Post : " To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a home might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. " # Arts and Artists # History and Historians # Death and Dying

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Tom Jaine : " If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong. " # Arts and Artists # History and Historians # Death and Dying

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Sinclair Lewis : " The dinner was the best style of women's-magazine art, whereby the salad was served in hollowed apples, and everything but the invincible fried chicken resembled something else. ~ Ch. 8 " # Arts and Artists # History and Historians # Death and Dying

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Lytton Strachey : " The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. " # Arts and Artists # History and Historians # Death and Dying

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Peter (Stephen Paul) Brook : " Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experience on the stage that transcended their experience in life. They will maintain that Oedipus or Berenice or Hamlet or The Three Sisters performed with beauty and with love fires the spirit and gives them a reminder that daily drabness is not necessarily all. " # Arts and Artists # History and Historians # Death and Dying

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Northrop Frye : " A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas. " # Arts and Artists # History and Historians # Death and Dying

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Wystan Hugh Auden : " History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. " # Arts and Artists # History and Historians # Death and Dying

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John Kenneth Galbraith : " Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. " # Arts and Artists # History and Historians # Death and Dying

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Clive James : " The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same. " # Arts and Artists # History and Historians # Death and Dying

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Susan Sontag : " Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of meanings. " # Arts and Artists # History and Historians # Death and Dying

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

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Kenneth Clark: " 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." # Cynics and Cynicism # Confidence # Nuclear Age

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Kenneth Clark: " Totalitarian art must be a form of classicism: the state which is founded on order and subordination demands an art with a similar basis. Romantic painting, however popular, expresses the revolt of the individual. The State also requires an art of reason by which appropriate works may be produced as required. Inspiration is outside state control. The classic attitude toward subject matter — that it should be clear and unequivocal — supports the attitude of unquestioning belief. Add the fact that totalitarian art must be real enough to please the ignorant, ideal enough to commemorate a national hero, and well enough designed to present a memorable image, and one sees how perfectly The Death of Marat fills the bill. That it happens also to be a great work of art makes it dangerously misleading." # Truth # Heroes and Heroism # Arts and Artists

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Kenneth Clark: " Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries." # Debt # Action # Age and Aging

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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." # Civilization # Bores and Boredom # Adversity

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Kenneth Clark: " Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation." # Arts and Artists # Reputation # Creativity

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Kenneth Clark: " Gargoyles were the complement to saints; Leonardo's caricatures were complementary to his untiring search for ideal beauty. And gargoyles were the expression of all the passions, the animal forces, the Caliban gruntings and groanings which are left in human nature when the divine has been poured away. Leonardo was less concerned than his Gothic predecessors with the ethereal parts of our nature, and so his caricatures, in their expression of passionate energy, merge imperceptibly into the heroic." # Trials # Beauty # Passion

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Kenneth Clark: " 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." # Theater # Writers and Writing # Arts and Artists

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Kenneth Clark: " To Leonardo a landscape, like a human being, was part of a vast machine, to be understood part by part and, if possible, in the whole. Rocks were not simply decorative silhouettes. They were part of the earth's bones, with an anatomy of their own, caused by some remote seismic upheaval. Clouds were not random curls of the brush, drawn by some celestial artist, but were the congregation of tiny drops formed from the evaporation of the sea, and soon would pour back their rain into the rivers." # Arts and Artists # Love # Death and Dying

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Kenneth Clark: " Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself." # Arts and Artists # History and Historians # Death and Dying

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