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> # The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.

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## More from Kenneth Clark

1. > Two pictures painted in the year 1907 can conveniently be taken as the starting point of twentieth-century art. They are Matisse's Blue Nude and Picasso's Demo…

[Permalink to quote \#16](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/16/ "Permalink to quote 16")
2. > Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly, engaged the whole of human persona…

[Permalink to quote \#18](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/18/ "Permalink to quote 18")
3. > Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

[Permalink to quote \#15](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/15/ "Permalink to quote 15")

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