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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
Uncommon
Nuclear
Sun
Universe
Easel

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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
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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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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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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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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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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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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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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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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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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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