John Walford Quotes

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

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

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

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 evident throughout centuries of earlier art.