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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 didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could…
— Cindy Sherman
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New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.
— Sol LeWitt
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Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.
— Eli Broad
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It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art…
— Donald Judd
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,…
— James Keller
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I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the…
— Donald Fagen
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This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society,
— Ai Weiwei
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The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality…
— Paddy Johnson
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Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
— Tom Stoppard
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Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why…
— Charles Saatchi
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I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum,…
— John Green
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I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.
— Bruno Tonioli
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