Robert Genn Quotes - Page 4

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• 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

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• Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

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  Artist, Ideas, Demand

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• As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas.

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  Motivation, Attitude, Block

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• As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.

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  Change, Artist, Self

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• Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.

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  Fashion, Art, Critics

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• By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

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  Photography, Teaching, Danger

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• 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.

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  People, Ego, Needs

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

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  Skills, Focus, Effort

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• Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.

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  Two, Essentials, Canvas

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.20, Studio Beckett Publications

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• 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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.

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  Museums, Life Is, Passages

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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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• 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

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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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• Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

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  Artist, Battle, Mediocrity

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• Artists cannot be micro-managed. We can take heart that everything we do is different from the last thing we did - or indeed everything that's ever been done. That knowledge is the key to sound mentoring.

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  Heart, Artist, Keys

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• 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.

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  Trying, Bees, Here And There

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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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• I'm a believer in moderation in all things, including moderation.

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  Moderation, Believer, All Things

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

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  Running, House Of Leaves

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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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