All Robert Genn Quotes
- Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought. Afterthought
- As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack… Attitude
- Fact is, perfection is boring. Boredom
- As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future. Artist
- The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even… Art
- Our currency is what we are able to make. Able
- The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out… Appendix
- Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow. Book
- Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the… Acceptance
- We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain. Amazing
- One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting. Activity
- Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here. Composition
- A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability... Ability
- With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or… Abstractions
- Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them. Backgrounds
- Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination. Asserts
- We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect. Artist
- Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the… Approval
- Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial… Art
- Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators. Continues
- Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes. Creator
- Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions. Allows
- By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous. Danger
- Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival. Dealer
- Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen. Deception