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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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Loaded
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Red

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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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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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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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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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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.
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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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