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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

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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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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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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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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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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