Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting. — 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
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
The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques. — 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
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
I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home… — 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
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
A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen. — 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
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
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
Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the… — 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
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
