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We artists allow others to see through our windows.

Robert Genn

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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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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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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
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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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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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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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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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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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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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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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