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The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.

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
Overly
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Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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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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By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
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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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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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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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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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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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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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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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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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Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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