Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless, — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended,… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality.… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself.… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
While knowledge of tools and the love of motif may be in your backpack, and all mountains may be measured by their… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good.… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it. — Robert Genn Copy Share
Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting. — Robert Genn Copy Share
Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the… — Robert Genn Copy Share
Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as… — Robert Genn Copy Share
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… — Robert Genn Copy Share
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… — Robert Genn Copy Share
Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes. — Robert Genn Copy Share
When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing. — Robert Genn Copy Share
Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get… — Robert Genn Copy Share
Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve… — Robert Genn Copy Share
When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio. — Robert Genn Copy Share
In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional. — Robert Genn Copy Share
