The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this… — 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
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
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
As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended,… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
