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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
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Robert Douglas Genn
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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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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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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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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We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.
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The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.
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The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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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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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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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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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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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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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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The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
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