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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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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
Robert Genn
The job of art is to turn time into things.
Robert Genn
Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
Robert Genn
As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
Robert Genn
Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
Robert Genn
Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
Robert Genn
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.
Robert Genn
Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.
Robert Genn
Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
Robert Genn
As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
Robert Genn
The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
Robert Genn
Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
Robert Genn
Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
Robert Genn
For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
Robert Genn
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.
Robert Genn
Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
Robert Genn
A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
Robert Genn
Our currency is what we are able to make.
Robert Genn
No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
Robert Genn
There is no progress without product.
Robert Genn