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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Glasses
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Large
Pieces
Small
Quality
Better
Diamond
Glass

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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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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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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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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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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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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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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.
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Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.
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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 job of art is to turn time into things.
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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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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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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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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.
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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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Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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