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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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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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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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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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While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
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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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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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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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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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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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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.
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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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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
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