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.
Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.
Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.
True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.
According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas.
There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities. . . Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.
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.
In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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.
Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.
Silent guns have virtue.
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.
Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.