Ken Danby famous quotes

04-12-2025

We do not see with our eyes, but through them.
-- Ken Danby

#Eye #Vision
Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact the words are an intrusion on the experience.
-- Ken Danby

#Art #Believe #Views
Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.
-- Ken Danby

#Life #Art #Barren
There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer quite a disservice.
-- Ken Danby

#Motivation #Inspiration #Artist
Abstraction and realism work best together.
-- Ken Danby

#Together #Realism
I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.
-- Ken Danby

#Solitude #Progress #Done
My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.
-- Ken Danby

#Want #Painting
Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.
-- Ken Danby

#Art #Judging #Merit
The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable of conveying this enlightenment than the artist.
-- Ken Danby

#Teacher #Teaching #Artist
The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.
-- Ken Danby

#Technology #World #Human Condition
Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.
-- Ken Danby

#Understanding #May #Want
Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.
-- Ken Danby

#Judgment #Instinct #Conscious
Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that isn't a priority in the traditional program of learning. This is unacceptable in a so-called 'enlightened' society.
-- Ken Danby

#Art #Priorities #Commodity
Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.
-- Ken Danby

#Artist #Development #Path
Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'
-- Ken Danby

#Answers #Next #Conformity
Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.
-- Ken Danby

#Art #Enlightenment #Essentials
Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the arts.
-- Ken Danby

#Art #Enlightenment #Essentials
The degree to which the arts are included in our educational curriculum is totally inadequate. The arts are just as important as math and science in an education and just as important as any other endeavour in our lives.
-- Ken Danby

#Art #Educational #Math
Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by Tom ThomsonÂ and his colleagues. The concept of this painting grew out of a number of forays into Algonquin over the years. From its conception I intended Algonquin to be a subtle tribute to Tom Thomson. But I also wanted it to be a response to the natural beauty that so typifies the grandeur of Ontarioâ€™s first provincial park.
-- Ken Danby

#Strong #Growing Up #Years
In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.
-- Ken Danby

#Details #Useless #Sake
Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.
-- Ken Danby

#Inspire #Audience
Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.
-- Ken Danby

#Art #Expression #Creative
Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.
-- Ken Danby

#Desire #Degrees #Talent
Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.
-- Ken Danby

#Drawing #Foundation #Painting
As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.
-- Ken Danby

#Artist #Vision #Elements

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