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Drawing is still the bottom line.

Robert Genn

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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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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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An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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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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There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
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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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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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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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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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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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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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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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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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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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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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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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