Artist Quotes by John Walford

Begbie offers an additional valuable contribution by rejecting the traditional emphasis on beauty, in its Platonic sense, and instead suggesting that beauty be reconceived…

— John Walford

Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects…

— John Walford

As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is…

— John Walford

Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed.…

— John Walford

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

— John Walford

In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the…

— John Walford

Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to…

— John Walford

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

— John Walford

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect -…

— John Walford

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

— John Walford

Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a new vision…

— John Walford

In as much as Christ's mission was to bring all things into submission to God, and to restore not only humanity, but also the…

— John Walford

Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married to artistic…

— John Walford

The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is…

— John Walford

Christ, as the ultimate Imago Dei is alluded to in scripture as being without external beauty in the Classical sense, and should better be…

— John Walford