163 Quotes by Robert Genn

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.

Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.

Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear – then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.

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.

Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.

There is no progress without product.

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

People suspend judgment in the presence of mystery.

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects – the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.