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John Walford has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of…
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The last thing my mother said to me was, 'SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.'…
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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of…
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Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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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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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
— Oliver Reed
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The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what…
— Sylvia Plath
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Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them…
— Jim Elliot
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If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the…
— Don Roff
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