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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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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.
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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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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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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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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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Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get 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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Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.
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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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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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While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
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Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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