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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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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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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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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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