163 Quotes by Robert Genn

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

Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.

I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that it is not going to be the masterpiece I thought it would be, and I start putting my hopes into the next work.

Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that ‘behind the times’ is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?

Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.

Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.

This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

Visual tonics such as ‘timed creativity’ need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.