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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 do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my…
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Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk…
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A woman is subject matter enough.
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could.…
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Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter…
— Freeman Patterson
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At the current rate of 28 miles of SBInet [Secure Border Initiative network] technology every 4.5 years, it would take 320 years…
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The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter.
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The workmanship was better than the subject matter.
— Ovid
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The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.
— Kenneth Koch
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As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with…
— James Whistler
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People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the…
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