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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.
Robert Genn
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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
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Robert Douglas Genn
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Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
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Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.
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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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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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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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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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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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A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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