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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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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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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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We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.
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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 centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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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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The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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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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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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