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

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.

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

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

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

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

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

Ken Danby quotes: Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.

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

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

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

Ken Danby quotes: Abstraction and realism work best together.

Abstraction and realism work best together.

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

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

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

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

Ken Danby quotes: As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.

As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.

Ken Danby quotes: Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.

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

Ken Danby quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.

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

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

Ken Danby quotes: Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.

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

Ken Danby quotes: 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.

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

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