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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Required
Worthy
Journey
Many
Visits
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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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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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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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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Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
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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 every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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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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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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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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While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
Robert Genn