Robert Genn Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!

  Robert Genn

  Moving, Men, Hovering

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

  Robert Genn

  Deception, Facts, Needs

• I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.

  Robert Genn

  Running, Home, Fire

• An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.

  Robert Genn

  Hands, Design, Sake

• 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.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Successful, Simple

• I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that it is not going to be the masterpiece I thought it would be, and I start putting my hopes into the next work.

  Robert Genn

  Littles, Next, Would Be

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.39, Studio Beckett Publications

• This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.

  Robert Genn

  Thinking, Names, Signatures

• 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.

  Robert Genn

  Two, Essentials, Canvas

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

• 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.

  Robert Genn

  Medicine, People, World

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

  Robert Genn

  Tombstone, Years, Lasts

• My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.

  Robert Genn

  Technology, Hands, Juicy

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

  Robert Genn

  Money, Painting, Grants

• Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.

  Robert Genn

  Fall, Giving, Feelings

• In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.

  Robert Genn

  Thinking, Cover Ups, Painting

• 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.

  Robert Genn

  Music, Years, Looks

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

  Robert Genn

  Assessment, Painting, Intrinsic Value

• 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.

  Robert Genn

  Jobs, Thinking, Records

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