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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 pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch it's good to know your personal limit.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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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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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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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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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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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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While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
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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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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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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
Robert Genn