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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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The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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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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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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Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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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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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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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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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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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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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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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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