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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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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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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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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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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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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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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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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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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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Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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