Danby Quotes

#1. From now on I'm thinking only of me."
Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way."
"Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

Joseph Heller

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Devon Danby

#3. Like all the other officers at Group Headquarters except Major Danby, Colonel Cathcart was infused with the democratic spirit: he believed that all men were created equal, and he therefore spurned all men outside Group Headquarters with equal fervor.

Joseph Heller

#4. How do you feel Yossarian?"
"Fine. No, I'm very frightened."
"That's good," said Major Danby. "It proves you're still alive. It won't be fun."
Yossarian started out. "Yes it will.

Joseph Heller

#5. I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Ken Danby

#7. Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

Al Hirschfeld

#8. High house shadow, and a knife in the dark. A new game's begun, or the old one's just turned.

Steven Erikson

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

Ken Danby

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

Ken Danby

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

Ken Danby

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Ken Danby

#15. 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

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

Ken Danby

#17. 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

#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

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

Ken Danby

#20. The dead season when wolves live off the wind.

Robert Lowell

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise

Isadora Duncan

#24. Abstraction and realism work best together.

Ken Danby

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

Ken Danby

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

Ken Danby

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

Ken Danby

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

Ken Danby

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

Ken Danby

#32. 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