Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity. — 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
Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity. — 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
A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any… — 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
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
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
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
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
Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an… — 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
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
For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity. — 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
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
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
My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by… — 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
Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel… — 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
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
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 Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself.… — 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… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
