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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
Art
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Love
Life
Heals
Heal
Gift
Ultimate

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The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
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An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.
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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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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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Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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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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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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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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An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.
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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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Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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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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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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