Robert Genn Quotes - Page 6

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• When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

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  Attitude, Praise, Paint

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• The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.

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  Guy, May, Inspired

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• Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

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  Book, Flow, Incompetence

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• Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.

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  Watches, Needs, Composition

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• Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

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  Real, Creativity, Imagination

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.64, Studio Beckett Publications

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• We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

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  Artist, Criticism, Sticks

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• Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

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  Fool, Culture, Paint

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• Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.

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  Keys, Goodwill, Dealer

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• Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

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  Deception, Facts, Needs

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• Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.

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  Creativity, Needs, Muse

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• True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.

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  Dream, Artist, Forever

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• We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of novelty. Our muse needs to stay seductive to keep our hands doing the right things.

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  Hands, Bored, Seductive

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• 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

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• Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.

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  Music, Years, Looks

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• Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you.

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  Music, Joy, Phrases

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• People suspend judgment in the presence of mystery.

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  People, Mystery, Judgment

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• 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

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• The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills to honour Her. There are no recipes for Autumn.

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  Nature, Autumn, Artist

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• The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.

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  Artist, Understanding, Observation

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• While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.

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  Community, Moxie, May

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• As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

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  Photography, Artist, Loyal

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• Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.

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  Desire, Plagiarism, Difficult

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• No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.

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  Hands, Priorities, Organizational

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.71, Studio Beckett Publications

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• There is no progress without product.

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  Progress, Products

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• Quality is always in style.

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  Style, Quality

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