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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Heal
Gift
Ultimate
Art
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Love
Life
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
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Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.
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There is no progress without product.
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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch it's good to know your personal limit.
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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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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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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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We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.
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Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
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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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