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Our currency is what we are able to make.

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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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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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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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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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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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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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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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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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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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
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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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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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