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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
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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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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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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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.
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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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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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A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.
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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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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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