Quotes from Ken Danby

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Abstraction and realism work best together.

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

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

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

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.