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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
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Art
Cobwebs
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
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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.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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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.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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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.
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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.
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Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.
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