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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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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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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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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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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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Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.
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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.
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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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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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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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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.
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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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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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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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