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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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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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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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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch it's good to know your personal limit.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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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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Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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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 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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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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