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The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.

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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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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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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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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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
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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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An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.
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Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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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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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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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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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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