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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
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.
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The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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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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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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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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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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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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