Quotes by Ken Danby - Page 1

Abstraction and realism work best together.
Ken Danby / Painter
Abstraction
Realism
Together
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We do not see with our eyes, but through them.
Ken Danby / Painter
Awe
Eye
Vision
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Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.
Ken Danby / Painter
Audience
Inspire
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Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.
Ken Danby / Painter
Drawing
Foundation
Painting
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Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.
Ken Danby / Painter
Art
Enlightenment
Essentials
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Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.
Ken Danby / Painter
Art
Life
Barren
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Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.
Ken Danby / Painter
Art
Judging
Merit
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In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.
Ken Danby / Painter
Details
Sake
Useless
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My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.
Ken Danby / Painter
Painting
Viewers
Want
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Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.
Ken Danby / Painter
May
Understanding
Want
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Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'
Ken Danby / Painter
Answers
Conformity
Next
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Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.
Ken Danby / Painter
Art
Creative
Expression
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As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.
Ken Danby / Painter
Artist
Elements
Vision
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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 / Painter
Degrees
Desire
Talent
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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 / Painter
Done
Progress
Solitude
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Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.
Ken Danby / Painter
Conscious
Instinct
Judgment
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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 / Painter
Technology
Human Condition
World
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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 / Painter
Artist
Inspiration
Motivation
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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 / Painter
Artist
Development
Emulation
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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 / Painter
Art
Enlightenment
Essentials
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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 / Painter
Teacher
Artist
Teaching
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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 / Painter
Art
Believe
Views
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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 / Painter
Art
Educational
Math
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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 / Painter
Art
Commodity
Priorities
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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.
Ken Danby / Painter
Growing Up
Numbers
Strong
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