Robert Genn

When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.

— Robert Genn

We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.

— Robert Genn

The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It…

— Robert Genn

Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.

— Robert Genn

For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.

— Robert Genn

While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.

— Robert Genn

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

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

— Robert Genn

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

— Robert Genn

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms…

— Robert Genn

God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.

— Robert Genn

While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused…

— Robert Genn

The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills…

— 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

Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me…

— Robert Genn

Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.

— Robert Genn

One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.

— Robert Genn

Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.

— Robert Genn

The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known…

— Robert Genn

With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded,…

— Robert Genn

Drawing is still the bottom line.

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn