I find that contemporary Christian artists have largely bought into the Romantic myth of the outsider artist. They want the Church to appreciate what they do, but they are—many of them at least—completely unwilling to become accountable in any significant way to the Church, or to culture as a whole. If we are going to take the visual arts seriously, as Christians, then we have to face the possibility that we might have to undo two hundred years of separation between Church and art, and get back to a point where people think art is important enough to keep track of, and artists think it is important enough that they are willing to be held accountable for what they do. I see very little evidence that either one of these things is happening.
Robert Russell: The Place of the Artist in the Christian Community
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