"As far as stimulus from the visual arts……" — John Walford
"As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely undernourished. One might go so far as to say that Protestants in particular suffer from a form of visual anorexia. It is not that there is a lack of visual stimuli, but rather a lack of wholesomeness of form and content amidst the all-pervasive sensory overload."
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John Walford
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17 Quotes by John Walford
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Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art…
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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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Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual…
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