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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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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.
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The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.
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Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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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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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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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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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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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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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.
Robert Genn