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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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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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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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The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
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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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Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
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An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.
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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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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
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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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The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.
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Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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