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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
Waiting
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Amateurs
Professionals
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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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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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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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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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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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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.
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I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.
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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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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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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
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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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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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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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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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