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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.
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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There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
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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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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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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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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
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Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
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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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Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
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In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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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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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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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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