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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Pigment
Mortals
Light
May
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Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
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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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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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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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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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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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The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.
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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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In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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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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Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.
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I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.
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