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> # 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 do so it is bad art and false morals.

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## More from Kenneth Clark

1. > 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 sha…

[Permalink to quote \#7](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/7/ "Permalink to quote 7")
2. > The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the h…

[Permalink to quote \#9](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/9/ "Permalink to quote 9")
3. > 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")

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