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Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.
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In as much as Christ's mission was to bring all things into submission to God, and to restore not only humanity, but…
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Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a…
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It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its…
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Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to…
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Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?
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Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at…
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Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art…
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Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married…
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The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the…
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As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry,…
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Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has…
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... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of…
— Philip Zimbardo
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so…
— Andre Gide
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Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served…
— Susan Sontag
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Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought!…
— Lewis Thomas
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Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope,…
— Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
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Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of…
— Perry Anderson
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Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.
— Thrity Umrigar
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
— Umberto Eco
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Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
— Eugene Ionesco
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Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the…
— Robert C. Solomon
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