Robert Genn Quotes - Page 3

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• Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.

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  Muse, Renewal, Process

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• When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.

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  Passion, Proficiency, Habitual

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• Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.

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  Curiosity, Curious, Creator

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• Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.

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  Power, Accomplishment, Feelings

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• Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap.

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  Style, Handicaps, Fine

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• An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

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  Quality, Titles, Action

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.144, Studio Beckett Publications

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• To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.

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  Clouds, Becoming One, Effort

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• No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.

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  Discipline, Needs, Matter

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• Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

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  Suggestions, Mystery, Description

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• Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.

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  Depression, Spring, Passion

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• 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.

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  Littles, Next, Would Be

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

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• Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.

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  Jobs, Artist, Approval Of Others

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• While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.

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  Thinking, Innovation, Peculiar

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Fall, Giving, Feelings

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• Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.

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  Writing, Artist, Vocabulary

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• 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.

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  Running, Home, Fire

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• Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.

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  Trying, Bees, Here And There

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• Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.

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  Creative

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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 head governs, the heart assists, the body acts.

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  Work, Heart, Body

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

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  Assessment, Painting, Intrinsic Value

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• For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.

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  Drawing, Spontaneity, Tyranny

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• Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty years ago this miracle would be unthinkable.

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  Technology, Voice, Ipads

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