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The job of art is to turn time into things.

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
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Robert Douglas Genn
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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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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Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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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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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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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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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
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