Robert Genn Quotes - Page 7

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• A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

  Robert Genn

  Art, May, Selling

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• Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

  Robert Genn

  Ideas, Path, Novelty

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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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• The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known and set upon than the eyes. The mouth is also riddled with a complex interweaving of folds, curves, flats and lost-and-found edges. These nuances are needed by a perceptive person who might try to understand human nature.

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  Eye, Kissing, Curves

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• Prices need to be fair, appropriate and consistent.

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  Needs, Consistent, Appropriate

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• No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but they feel perfectly comfortable staring over an artist's shoulder while he is trying to paint.

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  Artist, Trying, Looks

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• No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.

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  Hands, Priorities, Organizational

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.71, Studio Beckett Publications

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• 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.

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  Art, Successful, Simple

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• In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.

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  Art, Enthusiastic, Profession

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• 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.

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  Two, Essentials, Canvas

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

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• The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.

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  Art, Wine, Bottles

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

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  Feel Good, Feelings

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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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• Well considered abandonment is a trusted teacher.

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  Teacher, Disappointment, Abandonment

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

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  Artist, Criticism, Sticks

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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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• Our currency is what we are able to make.

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  Able, Currency, Commerce

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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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• 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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• 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 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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