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title: "I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit… — Kenneth Clark Quote #26 | QuotesBy.net"
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> # I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.

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## More from Kenneth Clark

1. > The convention by which the great events in biblical or secular history could be enacted only by magnificent physical specimens, handsome and well-groomed, wen…

[Permalink to quote \#25](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/25/ "Permalink to quote 25")
2. > As for the Messiah, it is, like Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, one of those rare works that appeal immediately to everyone, and yet is indisputably a masterp…

[Permalink to quote \#27](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/27/ "Permalink to quote 27")
3. > The great artist takes what he needs.

[Permalink to quote \#24](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/24/ "Permalink to quote 24")

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