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title: "Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest invention… — Kenneth Clark Quote #28 | QuotesBy.net"
description: "Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. — a quote by Kenneth Clark."
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> # Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

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## More from Kenneth Clark

1. > 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…

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2. > What on earth has given opera its prestige in western civilisation - a prestige that has outlasted so many different fashions and ways of thought? Why are peop…

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3. > 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")

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