Arcane Quote by Robert Genn

“Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.” quote by Robert Genn — Download Open image

“Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.”

Robert Genn

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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.

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Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.

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Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

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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…

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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…

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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.

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Art is a path on which we honour our world.

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With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.

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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.

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Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get…

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We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

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“The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.”

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