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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
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Art
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Companionship
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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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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In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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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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Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.
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The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch it's good to know your personal limit.
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