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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
Heals
Heal
Gift
Ultimate
Art
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Love
Life

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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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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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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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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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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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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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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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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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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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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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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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