"Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can……" — 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."
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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.
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When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise
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Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of…
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless,
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Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction…
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Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be…
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.
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More Arcane Quotes
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The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home,…
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Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.
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People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures…
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The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional…
— David Deutsch
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Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than…
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The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live…
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True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down.
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The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy…
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