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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.

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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Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.
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Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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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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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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Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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