"Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a……" — John Walford
"Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art."
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John Walford
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17 Quotes by John Walford
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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…
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Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but…
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It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and…
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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…
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Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that…
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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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The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue…
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As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that…
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Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian…
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In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist…
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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