Quotes from Robert Genn

Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.

In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.

Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?

Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

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.

A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.

While knowledge of tools and the love of motif may be in your backpack, and all mountains may be measured by their previous heroes, art must exist for you in a place beyond the judgment of others.

Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.

True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.

Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel and outdoor work.

The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts.

While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.

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.

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.

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

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.

Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.

The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.

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.