Robert Genn
There is no progress without product.Collection: Progress
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.Collection: Sight
It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.Collection: Glasses
Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Beautiful
When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praiseCollection: Attitude
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.Collection: Art
You're right, super-realism is back in style.Collection: Style
Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.Collection: Style
I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.Collection: Opportunity
Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.Collection: Joy
Flowers are an education in a vase.Collection: Flower
A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.Collection: Assessment
Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?Collection: Competition
The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills to honour Her. There are no recipes for Autumn.Collection: Nature
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery rather that obvious description. Like a good poem, a good abstraction attacks your feelings before your understanding. Abstraction within realism adds zest and excitement to otherwise dull subject matter. Abstract understanding takes time and patience.Collection: Art
Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.Collection: Cutting
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.Collection: Real
We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Fashion
By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.Collection: Photography
Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.Collection: Keys
Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.Collection: Deception
An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.Collection: Hands
Well considered abandonment is a trusted teacher.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Education
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.Collection: People
A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.Collection: Beautiful
I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.Collection: Competition
Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.Collection: Winning
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.Collection: Integrity
Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.Collection: Watches
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.Collection: Art
More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.Collection: Red
Art is a path on which we honour our world.Collection: Art
In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.Collection: Thinking
I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.Collection: Artist
It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.Collection: Rejection
Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.Collection: Art
The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined to accept them as serious like themselves. It's an unfortunate quirk of human nature and ought not to be fretted over.Collection: Art
In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.Collection: Corners
In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.Collection: 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.Collection: Art
Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Motivation
As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.Collection: Change
Our currency is what we are able to make.Collection: Able
The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.Collection: Art
We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.Collection: Skills