Robert Genn Quotes - Page 5

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• When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

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  Attitude, Praise, Paint

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

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  Tombstone, Years, Lasts

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

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  Art, Mean, Magic

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• A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.

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  Love, Powerful, Nice

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• Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

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  Artist, Battle, Mediocrity

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• 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

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• Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

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  Artist, Ideas, Demand

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• As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas.

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  Motivation, Attitude, Block

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• Well considered abandonment is a trusted teacher.

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  Teacher, Disappointment, Abandonment

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• As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.

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  Change, Artist, Self

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• Our currency is what we are able to make.

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  Able, Currency, Commerce

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

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  Hands, Design, Sake

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• The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.

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  Guy, May, Inspired

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

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  Deception, Facts, Needs

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• Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.

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  Keys, Goodwill, Dealer

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• By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

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  Photography, Teaching, Danger

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• Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

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  Fool, Culture, Paint

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• Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

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  Real, Creativity, Imagination

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.64, Studio Beckett Publications

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• 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

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• We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

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  Artist, Criticism, Sticks

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• In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.

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  Faster, Bits

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• Whatever you do, don't let your system run you.

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  Running, House Of Leaves

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• Which is better--feeling good or getting good?

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  Feel Good, Feelings

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• As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.

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  What You Love

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• God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.

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  Light, May, Pigment

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