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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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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and…
— Georg Brandes
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Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but…
— Epictetus
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be…
— Seneca the Younger
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To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.
— Emile M. Cioran
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... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me…
— Christer Kihlman
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There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.
— Edmond de Goncourt
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I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for…
— George Gissing
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I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities…
— Mark Twain
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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…
— John Walford
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There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.
— Jules de Goncourt
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Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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