True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression. — 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
The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless, — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Artists cannot be micro-managed. We can take heart that everything we do is different from the last thing we did - or… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Canned reference is practically always loaded with problems. Photos, for example, contrive to kill imagination and stifle the natural development of creative… — 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 Image
Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination. — 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
Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel… — 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
Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
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 Image
