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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Risk
Art
Self
Experimentation
Driven
Sorrow

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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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Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
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I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.
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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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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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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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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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There is no progress without product.
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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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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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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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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.
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Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
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Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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