Robert Genn Quotes
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Robert Genn Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.
Artists ... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
Sometimes ... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life ... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.
As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.
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.
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.
When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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.
While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.
Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.
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.
A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.
Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things
rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.
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.
Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
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.
I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.