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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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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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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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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.
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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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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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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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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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There is no progress without product.
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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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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.
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