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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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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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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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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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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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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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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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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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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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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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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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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.
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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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