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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
Path
Art
World
Honour

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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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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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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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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.
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A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.
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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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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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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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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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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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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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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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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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