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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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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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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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We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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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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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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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
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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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The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.
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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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Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.
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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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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
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Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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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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