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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Museums
Beauty
Life
Museum
Passage
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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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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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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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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Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.
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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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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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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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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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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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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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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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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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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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