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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.

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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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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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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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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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.
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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.
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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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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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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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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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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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