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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 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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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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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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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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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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Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.
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Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.
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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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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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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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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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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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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.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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