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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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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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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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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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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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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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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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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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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
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