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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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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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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.
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch it's good to know your personal limit.
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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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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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.
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