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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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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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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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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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As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.
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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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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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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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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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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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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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