163 Quotes by Robert Genn

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.

Silent guns have virtue.

In life and art it’s better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

Art, because it’s so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

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.

In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.

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.

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.