Robert Genn
Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.Collection: Beauty
Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.Collection: Art
The job of art is to turn time into things.Collection: Art
Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.Collection: Art
In art, everyone who plays wins.Collection: Art
The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.Collection: Art
Inspiration comes from doing.Collection: Inspiration
A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.Collection: Art
Know that to begin is often better than to think.Collection: Thinking
Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.Collection: Art
The only bad studio is the unused one.Collection: Studios
Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.Collection: Jobs
Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.Collection: Pregnancy
I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.Collection: Struggle
Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.Collection: Blow
With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.Collection: Repetition
The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.Collection: Art
One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.Collection: Knowledge
It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.Collection: Effort
I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting.Collection: Jobs
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.Collection: Artist
The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.Collection: Education
Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.Collection: Inspiration
Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.Collection: Sometimes
The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.Collection: Thinking
Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.Collection: Art
The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.Collection: Art
When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.Collection: Long
It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.Collection: Writing
Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.Collection: People
Fact is, perfection is boring.Collection: Boredom
One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.Collection: Interesting
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.Collection: Failing
Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions.Collection: Unique
For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.Collection: Self
Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!Collection: Moving
Drawing is still the bottom line.Collection: Drawing
A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.Collection: Curiosity
We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.Collection: Amazing Life
Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.Collection: Art
Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.Collection: Mistake
When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.Collection: Stand Alone
Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.Collection: Artist
Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.Collection: Creativity
Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.Collection: Nuclear
When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.Collection: Passion
Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.Collection: Curiosity
Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.Collection: Muse
Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap.Collection: Style