Quotes from Robert Genn

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!

Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.

Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls.

God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.

Which is better--feeling good or getting good?

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.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

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.

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

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.

We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

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.

Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.

Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

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.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.