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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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Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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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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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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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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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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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
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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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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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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
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It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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