"Words are small straitjackets when put around creative……" — Robert Genn
"Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings."
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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
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- 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,
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- 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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