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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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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.
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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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A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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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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Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
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A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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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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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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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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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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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
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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.
Robert Genn