"Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and……" — Robert Genn
"Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur."
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Robert Genn
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171 Quotes by Robert Genn
Robert Genn has 171 quotes on this site.
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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 Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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