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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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Essentially
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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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.
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There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.
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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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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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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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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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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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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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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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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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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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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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