Robert Genn Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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

  Robert Genn

  Art, Jobs, Art Is

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

  Robert Genn

  Art, Form, Heal

• 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

• 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

• A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

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  Art, Drawing, Cobwebs

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

  Robert Genn

  Art, Humility, Pride

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

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  Art, Differences, Treasure

• 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.

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  Art, Office, Dreamer

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

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  Art, Jobs, People

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

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  Art, Being Me, Life Is

• 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.

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  Art, Ocean, Acceptance

• 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.

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  Art, Self, Scotch

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

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  Art, Enthusiastic, Profession

• Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery rather that obvious description. Like a good poem, a good abstraction attacks your feelings before your understanding. Abstraction within realism adds zest and excitement to otherwise dull subject matter. Abstract understanding takes time and patience.

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  Art, Mean, Zest

• As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.

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  Art, Perfect, Events

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

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  Art, Mean, Magic

• 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

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

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  Art, Soul, May

• Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.

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  Music, Art, Real

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

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  Art, Self, Risk

• Art is a path on which we honour our world.

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  Art, Our World, Path

• 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.

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  Art, Nature, Hero

• Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.

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  Art, Thinking, Imagination

• In art, everyone who plays wins.

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  Art, Winning, Play

• Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Character, Acceptance

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