Robert Genn Quotes

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• Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

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  Beauty, Appreciation, Exercise

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• Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

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  Art, Form, Heal

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• The job of art is to turn time into things.

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  Art, Jobs, Art Is

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• 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.

  Robert Genn

  Winning, Expression, Feelings

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.35, Studio Beckett Publications

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• Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.

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  Art, Our World, Needs

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• In art, everyone who plays wins.

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  Art, Winning, Play

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• 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.

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  Art, Emotional, Levels

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• Know that to begin is often better than to think.

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  Thinking, Knows

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• The only bad studio is the unused one.

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  Studios

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• Inspiration comes from doing.

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  Inspiration

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• A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

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  Art, Drawing, Cobwebs

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

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  Jobs, May, Losing

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• 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.

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  Art, Pain, Common Sense

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• Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

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  Pregnancy, Waiting, Busy

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• 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.

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  Blow, Miracle, Insecurity

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• 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.

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  Struggle, Space, Trying

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• With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.

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  Repetition, Clear, Approach

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• One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

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  Knowledge, Way, Knows

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

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  Self, Going Out, Planning

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

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  Art, Being Me, Life Is

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

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  Inspiration, Waiting

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

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  Failing, Composition, Treated

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• We artists allow others to see through our windows.

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  Artist, Window

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• 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.

  Robert Genn

  Writing, Artist, Vocabulary

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

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  Long, Hunger, Efficiency

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