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We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.
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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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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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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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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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
Robert Genn
Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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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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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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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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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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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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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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