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Artist Quotes by Robert Genn

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Robert Genn reminds us that artists give thanks for the planet and use their work to honor it. He sees art as a personal development path without a diploma, where gradations and spontaneous brushwork lift a subject out of flatness, and where life gains meaning through creative practice.

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Art is a path on which we honour our world.

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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.

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Drawing is still the bottom line.

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We artists allow others to see through our windows.

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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.

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The job of art is to turn time into things.

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An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.

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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.

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True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.

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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.

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When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

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The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.

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In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.

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As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.

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We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this…

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Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are…

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Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel…

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Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature…

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Artists cannot be micro-managed. We can take heart that everything we do is different from the last thing we did - or…

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A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots…

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An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

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Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in…

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Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves…

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Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good…

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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

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Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all…

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Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to…

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Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.

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I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.

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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.

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Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

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Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.

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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.

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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.

Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.

Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the…

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as…

Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract…

Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish…

Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.

When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.

Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get…

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve…

When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.