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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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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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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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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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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.
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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.
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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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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.
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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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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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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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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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There is no progress without product.
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