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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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Personal
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Needs
Disciplines
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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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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
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The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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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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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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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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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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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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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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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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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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