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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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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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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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The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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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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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.
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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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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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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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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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