Quote

By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.

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
Many
Thinking
Blotted
Cleverer
Buddies
Buddy
Talented
Career
Careers

More quotes by 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
Know that to begin is often better than to think.
Robert Genn
Image
As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.
Robert Genn
Image
I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.
Robert Genn
Image
Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
Robert Genn
Image
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
Robert Genn
Image
An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.
Robert Genn
Image
Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.
Robert Genn
Image
A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
Robert Genn
Image
Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
Robert Genn
Image
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.
Robert Genn
Image
Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
Robert Genn
Image
As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
Robert Genn
Image
While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
Robert Genn
Image
We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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
Our currency is what we are able to make.
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
Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
Robert Genn
Image
A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
Robert Genn