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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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By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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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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I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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There is no progress without product.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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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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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
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