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The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.
Robert Genn
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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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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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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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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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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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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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My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.
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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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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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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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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.
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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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