Robert Genn Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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

  Robert Genn

  Art, Jobs, Art Is

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

  Robert Genn

  Art, Form, Heal

• 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

• 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.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Our World, Needs

• A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

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  Art, Drawing, Cobwebs

• Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Humility, Pride

• 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

• Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.

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  Art, Jobs, People

• 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

• 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.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Character, Acceptance

• The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Wine, Bottles

• 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

• 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

• A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

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  Art, May, Selling

• In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.

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  Art, Companionship, Late

• 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

• 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

• Canned reference is practically always loaded with problems. Photos, for example, contrive to kill imagination and stifle the natural development of creative patterns. While "ready-mades" do show up from time to time, they are rare. Art need not be what is seen-but what is to be seen. "Nature," said James McNeill Whistler, "is usually wrong."

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  Art, Imagination, Creative

• The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.

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  Art, Being Me, Life Is

• The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined to accept them as serious like themselves. It's an unfortunate quirk of human nature and ought not to be fretted over.

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  Art, Ocean, Acceptance

• 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

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

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  Art, Enthusiastic, Profession

• Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery rather that obvious description. Like a good poem, a good abstraction attacks your feelings before your understanding. Abstraction within realism adds zest and excitement to otherwise dull subject matter. Abstract understanding takes time and patience.

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  Art, Mean, Zest

• 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

• While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Mean, Magic

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