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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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The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
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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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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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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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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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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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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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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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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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