Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of… — 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
