Robert Genn Quotes - Page 2

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• Drawing is still the bottom line.

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  Drawing, Lines, Bottom

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.28, Studio Beckett Publications

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• 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.

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  Sight, Progress, Looks

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.21, Studio Beckett Publications

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• Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!

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  Moving, Men, Hovering

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• I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Records

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

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  Inspiration, Waiting

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• It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.

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  Effort, Doubt, Secret

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• 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

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• Fact is, perfection is boring.

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  Boredom, Perfection, Facts

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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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• Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions.

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  Unique, Creative, Curiosity

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

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  People, Religion, Priests

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• Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.

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  Sometimes

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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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• One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.

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  Interesting, Elements, Composition

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• Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

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  Cutting, Construction, Backgrounds

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

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  Thinking, Names, Signatures

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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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• Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.

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  Imagination, Bears, Theme

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• We artists allow others to see through our windows.

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  Artist, Window

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Writing, Unique, Thinking

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

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  Stand Alone, Subjects, Edges

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

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  Artist, Survival, Age

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• Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.

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  Muse, Renewal, Process

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