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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
Ultimate
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Love
Life
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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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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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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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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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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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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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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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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.
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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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Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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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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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
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