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
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
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
Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression. — 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
In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared. — 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
Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to… — 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
For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves… — 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
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
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
Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master. — 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
