“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.” NeedsArtChristianFilmFormCultureChristianityCreativeCuttingWorstTelevisionFineConfusedVisualsDesperateExcessIndifferentArenaGlamourFine ArtsDenseSeducingBasenessObfuscation Author:John Walford
“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.” WorldWayArtFactsProblemChristianLyingCultureCommunityChristianityOptimismCoreVisualsRejectsNaiveOutlookProtestantsArt WorldVisual ArtSemblanceDisinterest Author: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. 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.” ArtMightTodayFormSufferingCultureChristianityParticularHungryVisualsAppetiteStimulusProtestantsAnorexiaSensoryVisual ArtOverloadWholesomeness Author:John Walford
“Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.” ThinkingCultureInfluenceMusicianAll ThingsPerformancesPopsDesignerVisualsPop CultureNexus Author:Lady Gaga
“The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.” CultureLanguageVisualsTranslateAlphabetHemisphere Author:Marshall McLuhan
“Marilyn Monroe and Vivienne Leigh are real icons of mine. In terms of visual culture, they are both so iconic. There weren't any paparazzi shots of them falling out of taxis, so they will always look so incredible.” LooksRealFallCultureTermMinesShotsIncrediblesVisualsIconsTaxiIconicPaparazzi Author:Lily Cole
“Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads to creative manifestation in form and color. With that in mind, it might be suggested that the visual artist, - from commercial designer to fine art painter - has much to do with most things that enter your everyday visuals, and thus form a major portion of one's reality and, certainly, how this culture manifests and evolves.” MindArtRealityMightFormArtistCultureCreativeColorMaterialsFineMajorsEverydayPainterEvolvePerceiveManifestationDesignerVisualsPortionsSymbolicFine ArtsVisual ArtArtifactsVisual Artist Author:Robert Venosa
“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformation: the fact that it cannot be trusted, that imagery is always presumed to be proposing something contestable and controversial. This is the sheer, ebullient, slithering, dangerous fun of it. No image is presumed inviolable in our dance hall of visual politics, and all images are potentially powerful.” TryingFactsCultureFunPowerfulIssuesDangerousTruth IsWesternAppearancePrimariesVisualsHallsSincereTrustedSheerGorgeousImageryControversialReformationAdvancingAdmiringEccentricityWestern Culture Author:Dave Hickey
“Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.” CultureNaturalEmotionConsequenceVisualsPornographySentimentalityFragmentedNatural Consequences Author:Marshall McLuhan