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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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The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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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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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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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 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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As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.
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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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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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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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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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