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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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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.
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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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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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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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Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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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 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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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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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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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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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
Robert Genn