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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

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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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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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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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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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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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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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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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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 are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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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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Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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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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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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