Robert Genn Quotes - Page 7

In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.

In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.

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.

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

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

Well considered abandonment is a trusted teacher.

Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.

While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.

An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.

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.

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.

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

Prices need to be fair, appropriate and consistent.

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

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.

We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of novelty. Our muse needs to stay seductive to keep our hands doing the right things.

Artists cannot be micro-managed. We can take heart that everything we do is different from the last thing we did - or indeed everything that's ever been done. That knowledge is the key to sound mentoring.

A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.

Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.

A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.

I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.

Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.