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> # 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 masterpiece of the highest order.

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## More from Kenneth Clark

1. > 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 read…

[Permalink to quote \#26](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/26/ "Permalink to quote 26")
2. > Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

[Permalink to quote \#28](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/28/ "Permalink to quote 28")
3. > 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")

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