Robert Genn Quotes - Page 5

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• In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.

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  Corners, Loses

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• Our currency is what we are able to make.

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  Able, Currency, Commerce

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• 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.

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  Art, Character, Acceptance

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• With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or bamboozled.

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  Integrity, Butterfly, Winning

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• Well considered abandonment is a trusted teacher.

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  Teacher, Disappointment, Abandonment

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• A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.

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  Education, Book, Artist

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• A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.

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  Beautiful, Growing, Enthusiasm

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.33, Studio Beckett Publications

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• I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.

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  Competition, Excellence, Quality

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• Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.

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  Winning, Expectations, Expediency

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• The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

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  Art, Moving, Thinking

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• Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

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  Ideas, Path, Novelty

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• Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

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  Tombstone, Years, Lasts

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• Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls.

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  Money, Wall, Worry

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• Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.

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  Money, Painting, Grants

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• Prices need to be fair, appropriate and consistent.

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  Needs, Consistent, Appropriate

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• A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.

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  Art, Successful, Simple

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

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  Art, Enthusiastic, Profession

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• We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.

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  Artist, Space, Long

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• Silent guns have virtue.

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  Gun, Silence, Silent

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• The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.

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  Medicine, People, World

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• In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.

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  Art, Brain, Needs

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• Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.

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  Style

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• Flowers are an education in a vase.

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  Flower, Vases

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• A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.

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  Assessment, Painting, Intrinsic Value

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• God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.

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  Light, May, Pigment

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