Quote

Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.

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
Lead
Common
Feelings
Power
Channeled
Inadequacy
Properly
Accomplishment
Powers

More quotes by Robert Genn

Image
Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
Robert Genn
Image
Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
Robert Genn
Image
The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.
Robert Genn
Image
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
Robert Genn
Image
Flowers are an education in a vase.
Robert Genn
Image
There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
Robert Genn
Image
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.
Robert Genn
Image
A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
Robert Genn
Image
Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
Robert Genn
Image
Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
Robert Genn
Image
By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
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
Art is a path on which we honour our world.
Robert Genn
Image
Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
Robert Genn
Image
Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
Robert Genn
Image
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.
Robert Genn
Image
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.
Robert Genn
Image
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.
Robert Genn
Image
A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
Robert Genn
Image
Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
Robert Genn