The novelist Kenneth Clark died at the age of 79. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Remembered for Looking at Pictures (1960), Animals and Men (1977), and other popular books on the topics of art history and aesthetics, Clark is also notable as the producer, writer, and host of an internationally acclaimed BBC documentary series titled Civilisation.
After studying at Trinity College, Oxford, he became a curator at the Ashmolean Museum. In 1933, he was hired as the National Gallery’s youngest-ever director.
He published a 1977 autobiography titled The Other Half.
Quotes
""No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals."
Kenneth Clark
""Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable."
Kenneth Clark
""We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs."
Kenneth Clark
""The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people."
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."
Kenneth Clark