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> # Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art.

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## More from Kenneth Clark

1. > The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the h…

[Permalink to quote \#9](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/9/ "Permalink to quote 9")
2. > Early artists considered the human body, that forked radish, that defenseless starfish, a poor vehicle for the expression of energy, compared to the muscle-rip…

[Permalink to quote \#11](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/11/ "Permalink to quote 11")
3. > 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 d…

[Permalink to quote \#8](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/8/ "Permalink to quote 8")

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