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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
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Verbal
Observation
Direct
Understanding
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Artist
Things
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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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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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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.
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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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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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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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The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch it's good to know your personal limit.
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While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
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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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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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