Top 38 Ken Danby Quotes
#1. Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
Ram Dass
#2. Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes
Thomas Hardy
#3. Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.
Ken Danby
#4. Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.
Ken Danby
#5. Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.
Ken Danby
#6. 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
#8. 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
#9. As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.
Ken Danby
#10. Your personal core values define who you are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.
Tony Hsieh
#11. Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.
Ken Danby
#12. 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
#13. Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.
Ludwig Von Mises
#14. In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.
Ken Danby
#15. 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
#17. Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.
Angie Everhart
#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. Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.
Ken Danby
#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
#21. Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'
Ken Danby
#22. My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.
Ken Danby
#23. We do not see with our eyes, but through them.
Ken Danby
#24. Plato also knew clearly, and indicated by allusions in his works, the dogmas of the Trinity, mediation, the incarnation, the Passion and the notions of grace and salvation through love. He knew the essential truth. Namely, that God is good. He is only all-powerful in addition.
Simone Weil
#25. Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.
Ken Danby
#26. Dad brought it home from Paris when Terese was five. What other kid that age had a $10,000 oboe?
S.A. Bodeen
#27. For instance, the mass of an object changes when it moves, because of the conservation of energy. Because of the relation of mass and energy the energy associated with the motion appears as an extra mass, so things get heavier when they move. Newton
Richard Feynman
#28. Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.
Ken Danby
#29. I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands
Keith Richards
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. The eligibility for food stamps has widened and widened; welfare has been widened - unemployment insurance and disability insurance. These are all incentives not to work.
Lawrence Kudlow
#33. Abstraction and realism work best together.
Ken Danby
#34. In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.
Dean Koontz
#35. 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
#36. You have to learn every day. You can't be playing every day, but you can be practicing. If you cannot be practicing with a net and others daily, you still can be learning about the game by reading, watching and imaging. You must learn every day, if you want to be a real volleyball player. -
John Kessel
#37. The pulse in music is what makes it alive.
J.R. Rim
#38. 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
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