Artist Quotes by Robert Genn

Drawing is still the bottom line.

— Robert Genn

In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.

— Robert Genn

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

— Robert Genn

The job of art is to turn time into things.

— Robert Genn

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

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

— 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

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home…

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that…

— Robert Genn

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

The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions…

— Robert Genn

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

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

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

We artists allow others to see through our windows.

— 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

An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.

— Robert Genn

Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn