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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.

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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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Red
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Loaded

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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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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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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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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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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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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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There is no progress without product.
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Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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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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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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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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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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