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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

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 job of art is to turn time into things.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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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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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
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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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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.
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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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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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