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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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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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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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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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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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The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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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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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
Robert Genn
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An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
Robert Genn