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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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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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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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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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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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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.
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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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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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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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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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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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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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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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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
Robert Genn