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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
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Robert Douglas Genn
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The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.
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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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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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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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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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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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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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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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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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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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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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