Robert Genn Quotes - Page 2

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• The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.

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  Thinking, Greatness, Roots

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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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• It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.

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  Effort, Doubt, Secret

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• We artists allow others to see through our windows.

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  Artist, Window

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• Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.

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  Inspiration, Waiting

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• 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!

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  Moving, Men, Hovering

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• Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.

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  Sometimes

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• One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.

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  Interesting, Elements, Composition

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• Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions.

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  Unique, Creative, Curiosity

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• When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.

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  Long, Hunger, Efficiency

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

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  Art, Being Me, Life Is

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• It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.

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  Writing, Unique, Thinking

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• Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.

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  Failing, Composition, Treated

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• Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.

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  Art, Soul, May

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• For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

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  Self, Going Out, Planning

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• Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

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  People, Religion, Priests

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• Drawing is still the bottom line.

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  Drawing, Lines, Bottom

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.28, Studio Beckett Publications

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• A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.

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  Curiosity, Ability, Composition

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• We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.

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  Amazing Life, Complaining, Gifted

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

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  Art, Humility, Pride

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• Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Way

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• When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.

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  Stand Alone, Subjects, Edges

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• Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

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  Artist, Survival, Age

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• Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.

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  Nuclear, Sun, Uncommon

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• Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

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  Creativity, Being Alone, Artist

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