"An opening and a receptiveness to design and……" — Robert Genn

"An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand."

— Robert Genn

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171 Quotes by Robert Genn

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Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.
When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise
Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of…
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless,
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction…
Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be…
A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.
More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
Art is a path on which we honour our world.
In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.

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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions… — Mary Astell
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be… — Marcus Aurelius
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete… — Douglas Adams
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks

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