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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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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 Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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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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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.
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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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We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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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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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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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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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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