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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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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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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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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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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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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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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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A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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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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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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The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
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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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