Robert Douglas Genn (May 15, 1936 – May 27, 2014) was a well-known Canadian artist, who has gained recognition for his style, which is in the tradition of Canadian landscape painting.
Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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.
Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.
One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
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.
It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.
Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.
As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.
While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts.
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.
As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.
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.
A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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.
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.
To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.