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Art Quotes by Robert Genn

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Robert Genn reminds artists to thank the planet each day and to see art as personal growth without a diploma. He says an enthusiastic amateur beats a jaded professional any day. He also notes that artists need freedom, because they cannot be micro‑managed.

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In art, everyone who plays wins.

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Art is a path on which we honour our world.

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The job of art is to turn time into things.

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We artists allow others to see through our windows.

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The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.

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Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all…

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

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

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

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

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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.

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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

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Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to…

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Artists cannot be micro-managed. We can take heart that everything we do is different from the last thing we did - or…

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A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots…

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An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

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Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste…

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As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended,…

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

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

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The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are…

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Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves…

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Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in…

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Canned reference is practically always loaded with problems. Photos, for example, contrive to kill imagination and stifle the natural development of creative…

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The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It…

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Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good…

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Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.

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Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.

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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

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The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless,

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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.

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In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.

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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

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I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.

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Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

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Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature…

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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.

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

Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the…

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

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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…

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…

Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.

When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.

Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get…

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

When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.