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Fact is, perfection is boring.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
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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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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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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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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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Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.
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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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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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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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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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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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