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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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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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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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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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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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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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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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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.
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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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As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.
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The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
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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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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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