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> # The various parts of the body cannot be perceived as simple units and have no clear relationship to one another. In almost every detail the body is not the shape that art has led us to believe it should be.

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## More from Kenneth Clark

1. > It is widely supposed that the naked human body is in itself an object upon which the eye dwells with pleasure and which we are glad to see depicted. But anyon…

[Permalink to quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/6/ "Permalink to quote 6")
2. > No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not d…

[Permalink to quote \#8](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/8/ "Permalink to quote 8")
3. > Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

[Permalink to quote \#5](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/5/ "Permalink to quote 5")

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