Robert Genn Quotes About Painting
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A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.
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Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!
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Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.
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Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.
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I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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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.
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An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.
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Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.
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Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.
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In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.
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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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Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.
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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that it is not going to be the masterpiece I thought it would be, and I start putting my hopes into the next work.
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I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting.
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