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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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The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch it's good to know your personal limit.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult 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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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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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.
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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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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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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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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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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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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
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