Quote

When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.

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
Thing
Windowless
Released
Stands
Edges
Subject
Subjects
Alone

More quotes by Robert Genn

Image
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
Robert Genn
Image
Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
Robert Genn
Image
Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
Robert Genn
Image
Drawing is still the bottom line.
Robert Genn
Image
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.
Robert Genn
Image
In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.
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
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
Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
Robert Genn
Image
Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
Robert Genn
Image
So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
Robert Genn
Image
Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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
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
Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
Robert Genn
Image
It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
Robert Genn
Image
The job of art is to turn time into things.
Robert Genn
Image
Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
Robert Genn
Image
There is no progress without product.
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