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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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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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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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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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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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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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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.
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The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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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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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
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A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.
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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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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
Robert Genn