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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
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I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.
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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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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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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
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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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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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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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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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