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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
Companionship
Shared
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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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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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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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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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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Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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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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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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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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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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Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.
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