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The job of art is to turn time into things.

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
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Robert Douglas Genn
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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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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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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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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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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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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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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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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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