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> # Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.

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## More from Kenneth Clark

1. > 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")
2. > Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental art a peculiar concentratio…

[Permalink to quote \#20](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/20/ "Permalink to quote 20")
3. > 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.

[Permalink to quote \#17](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/17/ "Permalink to quote 17")

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