"For a lot of us drawing is a……" — Robert Genn
"For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity."
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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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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year…
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One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's…
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become…
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
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