Quote

Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

Robert Genn

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Wells
Twenty
Well
Twenties
Years
Hundred
Good
Generations
Tombstones
Like
Painting
Tombstone
Five
Paintings
Lasts
Immortality
Last
Thirty

More quotes by Robert Genn

Image
Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
Robert Genn
Image
The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
Robert Genn
Image
The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.
Robert Genn
Image
Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
Robert Genn
Image
It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
Robert Genn
Image
Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
Robert Genn
Image
Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
Robert Genn
Image
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.
Robert Genn
Image
It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
Robert Genn
Image
We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.
Robert Genn
Image
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
Robert Genn
Image
Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
Robert Genn
Image
With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
Robert Genn
Image
We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
Robert Genn
Image
Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
Robert Genn
Image
No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
Robert Genn
Image
While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
Robert Genn
Image
For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
Robert Genn
Image
One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
Robert Genn
Image
In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
Robert Genn