Calvin Seerveld Quotes
- Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.
- The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.
- Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach…
- Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on vanity, lust, self-indulgence…
- It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the…
- A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis…
- I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.