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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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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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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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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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Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
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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 overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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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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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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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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