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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.

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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Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.
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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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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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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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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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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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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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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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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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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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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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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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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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