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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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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A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.
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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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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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By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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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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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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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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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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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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