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The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
Robert Genn
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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
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Robert Douglas Genn
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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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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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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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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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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
Robert Genn
Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.
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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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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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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 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.
Robert Genn
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.
Robert Genn
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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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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