Robert Genn Quotes - Page 4

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• Flowers are an education in a vase.

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  Flower, Vases

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• I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.

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  Opportunity, Light, Metaphor

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• Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.

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  Style

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• By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.

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  Thinking, Careers, Has Beens

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• 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.

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  Technology, Hands, Juicy

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• Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.

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  Time, Yesterday, Right Now

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Medicine, People, World

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• 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

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• Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.

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  Titles, Factual, Pure

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• Silent guns have virtue.

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  Gun, Silence, Silent

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• Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.

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  Titles, Add, Lasts

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• Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?

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  Jobs, Journey, Thinking

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• Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?

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  Competition, Suffering, Who Cares

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• The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

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  Sight, Progress, Looks

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.21, Studio Beckett Publications

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• Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.

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  Beautiful, Powerful, Mountain

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• With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.

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  Play, Magic, Wizards

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• With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or bamboozled.

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  Integrity, Butterfly, Winning

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• Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.

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  Watches, Needs, Composition

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• 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.

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  Art, Character, Acceptance

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• Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

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  Book, Flow, Incompetence

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• 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

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• Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.

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  Effectiveness, Keys, Focus

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• Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.

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  Dog, Angel, Order

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• I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.

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  Journey, Destination, Worthy

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