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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Amateurs
Professionals
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Waiting
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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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 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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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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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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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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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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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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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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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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