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Know that to begin is often better than to think.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Often
Better
Think
Thinking
Begin

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Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
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It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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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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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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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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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.
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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
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The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.
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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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Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.
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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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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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