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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.

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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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.
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An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.
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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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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
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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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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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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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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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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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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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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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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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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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