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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Amateurs
Professionals
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Waiting
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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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 Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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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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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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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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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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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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There is no progress without product.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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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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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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