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Robert Genn quotes: With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard. With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
Robert Genn quotes: Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed. 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 quotes: Artists ... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors. Artists ... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
Robert Genn quotes: As you do your work, you discover what you love to do. As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
Robert Genn quotes: For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit. For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
Robert Genn quotes: Our currency is what we are able to make. Our currency is what we are able to make.
Robert Genn quotes: Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting. Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.
Robert Genn quotes: The job of art is to turn time into things. The job of art is to turn time into things.
Robert Genn quotes: When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise
Robert Genn quotes: Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within. Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
Robert Genn quotes: God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment. God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
Robert Genn quotes: Sometimes ... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares? Sometimes ... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
Robert Genn quotes: Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life ... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions. Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life ... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.
Robert Genn quotes: Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement. Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
Robert Genn quotes: As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master. As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
Robert Genn quotes: Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings. Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
Robert Genn quotes: I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence. I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.
Robert Genn quotes: Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe. Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
Robert Genn quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them. Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
Robert Genn quotes: According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative. According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.
Robert Genn quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Silent guns have virtue. Silent guns have virtue.
Robert Genn quotes: No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists. No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
Robert Genn quotes: In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented. In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.
Robert Genn quotes: When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio. 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 quotes: Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
Robert Genn quotes: There is no progress without product. There is no progress without product.
Robert Genn quotes: Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression. Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
Robert Genn quotes: Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life. Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
Robert Genn quotes: Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls. Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls.
Robert Genn quotes: Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators. Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
Robert Genn quotes: Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions. Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions.
Robert Genn quotes: When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing. When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
Robert Genn quotes: Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought. Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
Robert Genn quotes: With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open. With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.
Robert Genn quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes. Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
Robert Genn quotes: While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it. 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 quotes: I required a destination that was worthy of many visits. I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
Robert Genn quotes: Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy. Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.
Robert Genn quotes: Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination. Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.
Robert Genn quotes: A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art. A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
Robert Genn quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Drawing is still the bottom line. Drawing is still the bottom line.
Robert Genn quotes: The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless, The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless,
Robert Genn quotes: A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically. A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.
Robert Genn quotes: No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself. No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
Robert Genn quotes: Whatever you do, don't let your system run you. Whatever you do, don't let your system run you.
Robert Genn quotes: Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history. Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.
Robert Genn quotes: The only bad studio is the unused one. The only bad studio is the unused one.
Robert Genn quotes: Life is a passage through a museum of beauty. Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
Robert Genn quotes: Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings. Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.
Robert Genn quotes: Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do. Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
Robert Genn quotes: Know that to begin is often better than to think. Know that to begin is often better than to think.
Robert Genn quotes: We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain. We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.
Robert Genn quotes: A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away. A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
Robert Genn quotes: By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous. By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.
Robert Genn quotes: Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60. Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
Robert Genn quotes: Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations. Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
Robert Genn quotes: A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability ... A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability ...
Robert Genn quotes: Where there are few expectations, expediency wins. Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.
Robert Genn quotes: Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow. Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
Robert Genn quotes: Inspiration comes from doing. Inspiration comes from doing.
Robert Genn quotes: More than any other colour, red is loaded for action. More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
Robert Genn quotes: Fact is, perfection is boring. Fact is, perfection is boring.
Robert Genn quotes: Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl. Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
Robert Genn quotes: The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of thingsrather than by direct observation of things as they are. The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things
rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
Robert Genn quotes: I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity. I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.
Robert Genn quotes: Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here. Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
Robert Genn quotes: Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation. Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
Robert Genn quotes: People suspend judgment in the presence of mystery. People suspend judgment in the presence of mystery.
Robert Genn quotes: Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs. 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 quotes: For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity. For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
Robert Genn quotes: Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion. Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
Robert Genn quotes: To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one. To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.
Robert Genn quotes: We artists allow others to see through our windows. We artists allow others to see through our windows.
Robert Genn quotes: We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it. We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
Robert Genn quotes: It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass. It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
Robert Genn quotes: Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen. Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.
Robert Genn quotes: Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen. Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.
Robert Genn quotes: So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures? So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
Robert Genn quotes: Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity. Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
Robert Genn quotes: You're right, super-realism is back in style. You're right, super-realism is back in style.
Robert Genn quotes: In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional. In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.
Robert Genn quotes: 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. 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 quotes: One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures. One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
Robert Genn quotes: Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul. Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
Robert Genn quotes: Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap. Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap.
Robert Genn quotes: 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. 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 quotes: True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work. True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.
Robert Genn quotes: Quality is always in style. Quality is always in style.
Robert Genn quotes: Flowers are an education in a vase. Flowers are an education in a vase.
Robert Genn quotes: I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes. I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.
Robert Genn quotes: Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work. Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.
Robert Genn quotes: Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people. Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
Robert Genn quotes: Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment. Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
Robert Genn quotes: This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques. This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
Robert Genn quotes: While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do. While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.
Robert Genn quotes: Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work. Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.

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