In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability... — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional. — 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
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
