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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.

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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Timed
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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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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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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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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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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By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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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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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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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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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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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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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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