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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
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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Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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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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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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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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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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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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A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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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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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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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.
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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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