Robert Genn Quotes

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• Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

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  Beauty, Appreciation, Exercise

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• Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

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  Art, Form, Heal

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• The job of art is to turn time into things.

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  Art, Jobs, Art Is

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• There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right,
  mounted to best advantage.

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  Winning, Expression, Feelings

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.35, Studio Beckett Publications

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• Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.

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  Art, Our World, Needs

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• Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.

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  Art, Pain, Common Sense

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• Inspiration comes from doing.

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  Inspiration

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• In art, everyone who plays wins.

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  Art, Winning, Play

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• The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

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  Art, Emotional, Levels

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• Know that to begin is often better than to think.

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  Thinking, Knows

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• A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

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  Art, Drawing, Cobwebs

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• The only bad studio is the unused one.

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  Studios

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• I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.

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  Struggle, Space, Trying

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• Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.

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  Jobs, May, Losing

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• Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

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  Pregnancy, Waiting, Busy

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• Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.

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  Blow, Miracle, Insecurity

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• With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.

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  Repetition, Clear, Approach

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• The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

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  Education, Fall, Thinking

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• One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

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  Knowledge, Way, Knows

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• Fact is, perfection is boring.

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  Boredom, Perfection, Facts

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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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• We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.

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  Artist, Giving, Miracle

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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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• 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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• 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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