A Quote by Robert Genn

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

Robert Genn

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Fools History Make Paint Painters

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Robert Genn
Canadian - Artist
May 15, 1936 - May 27, 2014

There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the Danish Golden Age painters, the early 19th century painters, the way they could paint a landscape - absolutely beautiful.'

Margrethe II of Denmark

Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the radio. It is a soothing way of doing your job.

Paul Theroux

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

James Elkins

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

Luc Tuymans

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Richard Linklater

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

Christopher Meloni

The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.

Charles Saatchi

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

Ethan Zuckerman

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

Olive Schreiner

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

Alexander McCall Smith

You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future, there shall be no history; there shall remain not even a single trace of anything!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

Oscar Wilde

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.

Georg Baselitz

There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

Narayanananda Swami.

How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.

William Morris Hunt

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