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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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There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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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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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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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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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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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.
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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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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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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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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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