Robert Genn
While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.Collection: Art
With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.Collection: Play
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.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Hands
Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.Collection: Artist
True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Heart
Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.Collection: Trying
Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.Collection: Tattoo
I'm a believer in moderation in all things, including moderation.Collection: Moderation
Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls.Collection: Money
Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Music
Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel and outdoor work.Collection: Loneliness
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.Collection: Two
Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.Collection: Ideas
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.Collection: Tombstone
The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.Collection: Art
Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.Collection: Fool
I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.Collection: Journey
While knowledge of tools and the love of motif may be in your backpack, and all mountains may be measured by their previous heroes, art must exist for you in a place beyond the judgment of others.Collection: Art
People suspend judgment in the presence of mystery.Collection: People
Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.Collection: Effectiveness
Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.Collection: Knowledge
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you.Collection: Music
Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.Collection: Museums
Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.Collection: Creativity
According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.Collection: Sleep
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.Collection: Guy
Prices need to be fair, appropriate and consistent.Collection: Needs
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.Collection: Book