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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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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 allow others to see through our windows.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.
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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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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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There is no progress without product.
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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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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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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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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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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.
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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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