Cover ups Quote by Robert Genn Download Open image “In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.” — Robert Genn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cover ups Painting Sin Thinking
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
To discover that you can paint without special talent is a great revelation. An endless stream runs through you, enough to paint for lifetimes.… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
It would be very tempting to say that why paint because we have Michelangelo, we have Leonardo [Da Vinci], we have all these guys.… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
“When you are surrounded by so many talented people, it is normal to start doubting your own artistic choices, but to be a truly… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Working in the arts, you see people who come from terrible circumstances and who, for whatever reason, have incredible talent. But of course, with… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
People want you to be beautiful and shut up. When I paint or play music, they'd rather not know about that. — Paulina Porizkova Copy Share Image
Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art. — Esperanza Spalding 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
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as unions of… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Most people use excuses to cover up mistakes, but it takes less time to do something right the first time. — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you, accommodate you,… — Pedro Meyer Copy Share Image
Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth.… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other. — Ben Chandler Copy Share Image
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“It would be very tempting to say that why paint because we have Michelangelo, we have Leonardo [Da Vinci], we have all these guys. Why waste your time, because most likely you're not going to be on that level anyway.” quote by Esa-Pekka Salonen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3ee/esa-pekka-salonen-8409_guy_it-would-be-very-tempting-to-say-that-wh_2590531.jpg)
![“Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you, accommodate you, illuminate you, put make up on you or use a filter, am I not manipulating reality? The only difference is that now I can do it from the computer in the postclick…” quote by Pedro Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/71a/pedro-meyer-46329_abuse_before-the-myth-of-photography-doesn-t-l_152663.jpg)
![“Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.” quote by B. B. King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/928/b-b-king-4531_asks_playing-the-guitar-is-like-telling-the-t_186528.jpg)
![“The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/885/anonymous-1_abandoned_the-following-of-authority-is-the-denial_247202.jpg)