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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.

Robert Genn

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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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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.
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Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.
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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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By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.
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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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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
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Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.
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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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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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