Top 160 Robert Genn Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.”

— Robert Genn

2. “Fact is, perfection is boring.”

— Robert Genn

3. “Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.”

— Robert Genn

4. “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.”

— Robert Genn

5. “In life and art it’s better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.”

— Robert Genn

6. “Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you’re looking for.”

— Robert Genn

7. “Curiosity allows your unique “owned processes” to draw you toward creative conclusions.”

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

9. “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.”

— Robert Genn

10. “More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.”

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

12. “Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.”

— Robert Genn

13. “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.”

— Robert Genn

14. “We are not born focusing. It’s an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.”

— Robert Genn

15. “Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.”

— Robert Genn

16. “A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability...”

— Robert Genn

17. “As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.”

— Robert Genn

18. “It’s okay to doubt. It’s important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.”

— Robert Genn

19. “Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.”

— Robert Genn

20. “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.”

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

23. “Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.”

— Robert Genn

24. “When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.”

— Robert Genn

25. “Quality is always in style.”

— Robert Genn

26. “Flowers are an education in a vase.”

— Robert Genn

27. “Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.”

— Robert Genn

28. “Don’t assume there is only one way. Don’t assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don’t think for one minute that everyone agrees with what ‘good’ is.”

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

30. “Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.”

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

32. “With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.”

— Robert Genn

33. “It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.”

— Robert Genn

34. “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.”

— Robert Genn

35. “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.”

— Robert Genn

36. “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.”

— Robert Genn

37. “A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.”

— Robert Genn

38. “Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.”

— Robert Genn

39. “Seems those with money who don’t worry about money have big walls.”

— Robert Genn

40. “With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.”

— Robert Genn

41. “Prices need to be fair, appropriate and consistent.”

— Robert Genn

42. “Regarding ego force, we don’t always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.”

— Robert Genn

43. “I’m a believer in moderation in all things, including moderation.”

— Robert Genn

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

— Robert Genn

45. “Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.”

— Robert Genn

46. “Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.”

— Robert Genn

47. “It’s better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.”

— Robert Genn

48. “Inspiration comes from doing.”

— Robert Genn

49. “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.”

— Robert Genn

50. “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.”

— Robert Genn