Best 157 quotes of Robert Genn on MyQuotes

Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.

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

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

Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.

Quality is always in style.

Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.

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

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

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

Silent guns have virtue.

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

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.

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

Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.

The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known and set upon than the eyes. The mouth is also riddled with a complex interweaving of folds, curves, flats and lost-and-found edges. These nuances are needed by a perceptive person who might try to understand human nature.

The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills to honour Her. There are no recipes for Autumn.

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

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.

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.

The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts.

The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.

The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined to accept them as serious like themselves. It's an unfortunate quirk of human nature and ought not to be fretted over.

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

The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.

There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right,  mounted to best advantage.

There is no progress without product.

The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.

The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.

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

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

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

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

We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.

We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.

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

We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.

We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of novelty. Our muse needs to stay seductive to keep our hands doing the right things.

Well considered abandonment is a trusted teacher.

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

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

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

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

Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.

While knowledge of tools and the love of motif may be in your backpack, and all mountains may be measured by their previous heroes, art must exist for you in a place beyond the judgment of others.

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