Art Quote by Robert Genn Download Open image “Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.” — Robert Genn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Battle Belief Contrary Contrary to popular belief Evolve Faith Mediocrity Time
Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
Artists often have mental health issues. And their lifestyles are unstable because of all the travelling and the media commentary on their lives. — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation. — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you. — Joyce Johnson 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image