Robert Genn Quotes

On this page you can find the TOP of Robert Genn's best quotes! We hope you will find some sayings from Artist Robert Genn's in our collection, which will inspire you to new achievements! There are currently 182 quotes on this page collected since May 15, 1936! Share our collection of quotes with your friends on social media so that they can find something to inspire them!
  • Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.

  • The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

  • As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.

  • It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.

  • Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.

  • No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.

    Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.71, Studio Beckett Publications
  • Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

  • Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.

  • Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.

  • Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.

  • For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

  • Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?

  • Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.

  • Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

  • Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls.

  • God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.

  • Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel and outdoor work.

    Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.52, Studio Beckett Publications
  • Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.

  • Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.

  • Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

  • The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.

  • In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.

  • In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.

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

  • Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.

  • When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.

  • Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap.

  • More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.

  • A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.

  • It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.

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  • We hope you have found the saying you were looking for in our collection! At the moment, we have collected 182 quotes from the Artist Robert Genn, starting from May 15, 1936! We periodically replenish our collection so that visitors of our website can always find inspirational quotes by authors from all over the world! Come back to us again!