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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard. — Robert Genn

Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed. — Robert Genn

We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect. — Robert Genn

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

As you do your work, you discover what you love to do. — Robert Genn

In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners. — Robert Genn

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

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality. — Robert Genn

Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting. — Robert Genn

The job of art is to turn time into things. — Robert Genn

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise — Robert Genn

God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment. — Robert Genn

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action. — Robert Genn

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

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life ... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions. — Robert Genn

Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement. — Robert Genn

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master. — Robert Genn

Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings. — Robert Genn

I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence. — Robert Genn

It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes. — Robert Genn

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them. — Robert Genn

Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion. — Robert Genn

Silent guns have virtue. — Robert Genn

No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists. — Robert Genn

In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented. — Robert Genn

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

A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments. — Robert Genn

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. — Robert Genn

There is no progress without product. — Robert Genn

Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression. — Robert Genn

Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls. — Robert Genn

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators. — Robert Genn

Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions. — Robert Genn

When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing. — Robert Genn

Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought. — Robert Genn

When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual. — Robert Genn

With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open. — Robert Genn

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. — Robert Genn

Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy. — Robert Genn

Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul. — Robert Genn

I required a destination that was worthy of many visits. — Robert Genn

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work. — Robert Genn

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures. — Robert Genn

Which is better
feeling good or getting good? — Robert Genn

Flowers are an education in a vase. — Robert Genn

While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it. — Robert Genn

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional. — Robert Genn

Drawing is still the bottom line. — Robert Genn

Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes. — Robert Genn

A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically. — Robert Genn

No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself. — Robert Genn

Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history. — Robert Genn

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art. — Robert Genn

The only bad studio is the unused one. — Robert Genn

Life is a passage through a museum of beauty. — Robert Genn

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes. — Robert Genn

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination. — Robert Genn

Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings. — Robert Genn

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. — Robert Genn

This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques. — Robert Genn

Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people. — Robert Genn

Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work. — Robert Genn

As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future. — Robert Genn

Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment. — Robert Genn

It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass. — Robert Genn

Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen. — Robert Genn

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity. — Robert Genn

I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity. — Robert Genn

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. — Robert Genn

Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse. — Robert Genn

Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap. — Robert Genn

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. — Robert Genn

Quality is always in style. — Robert Genn

We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it. — Robert Genn

While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do. — Robert Genn

By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted. — Robert Genn

Whatever you do, don't let your system run you. — Robert Genn

I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities. — Robert Genn

Know that to begin is often better than to think. — Robert Genn

Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations. — Robert Genn

Inspiration comes from doing. — Robert Genn

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things
rather than by direct observation of things as they are. — Robert Genn

Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal. — Robert Genn

You're right, super-realism is back in style. — Robert Genn

So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures? — Robert Genn

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen. — Robert Genn

In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster. — Robert Genn

We artists allow others to see through our windows. — Robert Genn

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion. — Robert Genn

For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity. — Robert Genn

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

Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival. — Robert Genn

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul. — Robert Genn

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

Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here. — Robert Genn

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

Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation. — Robert Genn

People suspend judgment in the presence of mystery. — Robert Genn

The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts. — Robert Genn

To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one. — Robert Genn