"In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound……" — John Walford
"In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow."
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John Walford
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17 Quotes by John Walford
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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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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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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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