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Robert Genn Inspirational Quotes (108)

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My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.
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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.
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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.
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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
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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.
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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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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.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.
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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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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.
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