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Art Quotes by John Walford
- Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.
- 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 whole…
- Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a new vision of…
- It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in…
- Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a…
- Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?
- Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There…
- Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on…
- Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married to artistic banality-or,…
- 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 that…
- As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely…
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov