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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.

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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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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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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A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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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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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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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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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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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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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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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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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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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.
Robert Genn