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Art is a path on which we honour our world.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
World
Honour
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Art

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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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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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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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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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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.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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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.
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While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
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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.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.
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