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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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There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.
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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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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.
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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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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
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The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch it's good to know your personal limit.
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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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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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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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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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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
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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.
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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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