"Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our……" — Robert Genn
"Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened."
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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 Anatomy Quotes
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
— Honore de Balzac
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Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
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One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of…
— Benjamin Carson
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In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had…
— Sydney Brenner
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My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence…
— Carl Sagan
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Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the…
— Claude Bernard
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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all…
— John Dryden
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Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of…
— Charles Lyell
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Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time…
— Thomas Huxley
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