John Walford Quotes About Culture

• El narcisismo y el cristianismo tienen poco en común, pero el paradigma romántico de la creatividad artística, sobre todo a la luz de las ideas freudianas posteriores, ha tendido a fomentar su cuota de narcisismo. El trágico destino de Narciso fue que estaba tan preocupado por sí mismo que no podía apreciar a Dios, la naturaleza o el otro.

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  Creativity, Fate, Light

• Sería un grave descuido limitar nuestra comprensión del impacto de la teología al arte estrictamente religioso, y pasar por alto su papel omnipresente en la formación de la comprensión humana y su expresión artística dentro de cualquier cultura, independientemente del tema de que se trate.

  John Walford

  Religious, Art, Expression

• Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on several grounds work that is in any way explicitly Christian in content and also shrugs off as naive anything that has the semblance of hope or optimism in outlook.

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  Christian, Art, Lying

• En pocas palabras, hay que elegir entre dos combinaciones insatisfactorias: la integridad artística unida al compromiso espiritual; y la integridad espiritual unida a la banalidad artística o, peor aún, el arte comprometido en ambos aspectos. Ninguna de las dos opciones satisfará a quienes reconocen la necesidad fundamental de integridad tanto en la fe como en el arte.

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  Spiritual, Art, Integrity

• The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that while the art world has effectively freed itself from the tyranny of artistic tradition and its historic patronage system, it has ended up inhabiting an autonomous but perceived irrelevance.

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  Art, Creativity, Irrelevance

• 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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  Art, Anorexia, Suffering

• Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

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  Christian, Art, Culture

• Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There is a desperate need for creative Christians to redeem the visual arena from both forms of excess, cutting through all the false glamour, tawdry baseness and dense obfuscation.

  John Walford

  Christian, Art, Confused