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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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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
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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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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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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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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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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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The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.
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While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
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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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The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
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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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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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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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