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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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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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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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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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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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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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Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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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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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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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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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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Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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