Robert Genn Quotes - Page 3

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• Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

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  Creativity, Being Alone, Artist

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• Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.

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  Nuclear, Sun, Uncommon

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Way

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• When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.

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  Passion, Proficiency, Habitual

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• While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.

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  Thinking, Innovation, Peculiar

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• Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.

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  Curiosity, Curious, Creator

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

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  Power, Accomplishment, Feelings

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

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  Clouds, Becoming One, Effort

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• Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

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  Suggestions, Mystery, Description

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• No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.

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  Discipline, Needs, Matter

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• Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap.

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  Style, Handicaps, Fine

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• An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

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  Quality, Titles, Action

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.144, Studio Beckett Publications

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• Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.

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  Depression, Spring, Passion

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• I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that it is not going to be the masterpiece I thought it would be, and I start putting my hopes into the next work.

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  Littles, Next, Would Be

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.39, Studio Beckett Publications

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• Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.

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  Jobs, Artist, Approval Of Others

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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.

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  Art, Differences, Treasure

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• Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.

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  Museums, Life Is, Passages

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• Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

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  Knowledge, Artist, Gains

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• So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?

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  Disappointment, Blame

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• 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.

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  Effectiveness, Keys, Focus

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• I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.

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  Journey, Destination, Worthy

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• 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.

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  Loneliness, Artist, Lucky

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.52, Studio Beckett Publications

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• A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.

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  Love, Powerful, Nice

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

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  Tattoo, Girl, Teenage

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• With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.

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  Play, Magic, Wizards

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