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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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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.
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It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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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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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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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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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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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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