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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Drawing
Keeps
Away
Art
Cobwebs

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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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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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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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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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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into 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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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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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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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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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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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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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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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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