"In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece……" — John Walford
"In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness."
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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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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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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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,…
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted…
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
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