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Ken Danby quotes

Ocupation: Painter

Life: March 6, 1940 - September 23, 2007

Birthday: March 6

Death: September 23

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

Topics: Eye, Vision

quote art is a necessity an essential part of our enlightenment process we cannot as a civilized ken danby Quotes

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.

Topics: Art, Believe, Views

Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Motivation, Inspiration, Artist, Disservice, Young Artists

Abstraction and realism work best together.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Solitude, Progress, Done

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

Topics: Want, Painting

Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.

Topics: 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.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Technology, World, Human Condition

Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Judgment, Instinct, Conscious, Trust Your Instincts

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.

Topics: Art, Priorities, Commodity, Fluff, Enlightened Society

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

Topics: 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!'

Topics: Answers, Next, Conformity, Non Conformity

Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Art, Enlightenment, Essentials, Civilized Society

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.

Topics: Art, Educational, Math

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

Topics: Details, Useless, Sake

Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.

Topics: Inspire, Audience

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Desire, Degrees, Talent

Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Artist, Vision, Elements

Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by Tom Thomson 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 Ontario’s first provincial park.

Topics: Strong, Growing Up, Numbers, Algonquins

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