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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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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.
Robert Genn
As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
Robert Genn
Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
Robert Genn
Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
Robert Genn
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
Robert Genn
We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
Robert Genn
One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
Robert Genn
I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
Robert Genn
Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
Robert Genn
As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
Robert Genn
With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
Robert Genn
The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.
Robert Genn
Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
Robert Genn
Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
Robert Genn
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
Robert Genn
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.
Robert Genn
A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
Robert Genn
Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
Robert Genn
More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
Robert Genn
Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
Robert Genn