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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
Experimentation
Driven
Sorrow
Risk
Art
Self

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Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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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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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
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The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.
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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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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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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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