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…

- John Walford

In as much as Christ's mission was to bring all things into submission to God, and to restore not only humanity, but also the whole creation to its p…

- John Walford

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 th…

- 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. …

- John Walford

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

- John Walford

Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual int…

- John Walford

Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ide…

- John Walford

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

- 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 e…

- John Walford