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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
Work
Amateurs
Professionals
Inspiration
Waiting

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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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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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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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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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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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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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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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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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