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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
Work
Pigment
Mortals
Light
May

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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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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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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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Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
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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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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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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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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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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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My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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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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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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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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