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
The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused… — 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
In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted. — 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 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
The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of… — 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
