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Top 20 Ken Danby Quotes (2025 Update)

Ken Danby Quote: “Don’t cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.”

1. “Don’t cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.”

Ken Danby Quote: “Art is completely subjective. It’s up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.”

2. “Art is completely subjective. It’s up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.”

Ken Danby Quote: “Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.”

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

Ken Danby Quote: “Without art, we’re handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.”

4. “Without art, we’re handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.”

Ken Danby Quote: “Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one’s instincts will offer the better judgment.”

5. “Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one’s instincts will offer the better judgment.”

Ken Danby Quote: “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.”

6. “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 Quote: “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.”

7. “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 Quote: “Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.”

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

Ken Danby Quote: “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.”

9. “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 Quote: “Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one’s development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path – and be true to himself.”

10. “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 Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Quote: “As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal – at the exclusion of none.”

12. “As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal – at the exclusion of none.”

Ken Danby Quote: “We do not see with our eyes, but through them.”

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

Ken Danby Quote: “Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.”

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

Ken Danby Quote: “Whenever I’m asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same – ‘My next one!’”

15. “Whenever I’m asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same – ‘My next one!’”

Ken Danby Quote: “My paintings don’t simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.”

16. “My paintings don’t simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.”

Ken Danby Quote: “In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.”

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

Ken Danby Quote: “The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world – if that image is totally inane.”

18. “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 Quote: “Abstraction and realism work best together.”

19. “Abstraction and realism work best together.”

Ken Danby Quote: “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.”

20. “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 Quote: “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.”

21. “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 Quote: “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.”

22. “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 Quote: “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.”

23. “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 Quote: “Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.”

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

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