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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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While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
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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.
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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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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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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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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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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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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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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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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
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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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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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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
Robert Genn