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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
Inspiration
Waiting
Work
Amateurs
Professionals

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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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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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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.
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Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.
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There is no progress without product.
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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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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.
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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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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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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.
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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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Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
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