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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.

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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
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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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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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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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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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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
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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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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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As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
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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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