Robert Genn

Our currency is what we are able to make.

— Robert Genn

Inspiration comes from doing.

— Robert Genn

As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.

— Robert Genn

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.

— Robert Genn

Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.

— Robert Genn

We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.

— Robert Genn

The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts.

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

— Robert Genn

It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

— Robert Genn

Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone…

— Robert Genn

An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work…

— Robert Genn

While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.

— Robert Genn

We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of…

— Robert Genn

Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality.…

— Robert Genn

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

The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known…

— Robert Genn

A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight'…

— Robert Genn

There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself.…

— Robert Genn

With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded,…

— Robert Genn

No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of…

— Robert Genn

Know that to begin is often better than to think.

— Robert Genn

Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.

— Robert Genn

By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.

— Robert Genn

With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.

— Robert Genn

Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions.

— Robert Genn

Well considered abandonment is a trusted teacher.

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn