"Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get……" — Robert Genn

"Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work."

— 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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More Amateurs Quotes

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I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. — Paul Cezanne
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. — Chuck Close
The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
Jet lag is for amateurs. — Dick Clark
Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people. — Bruce Schneier
Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores. — Charles Bukowski
It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this… — Gerald Brenan
Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether. — Norman Mailer
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca
No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters,… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Amateurs hope. Professional work. — Garson Kanin

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