In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless, — 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
Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain. — 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
Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions. — 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
