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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Acrylic
Faster
Bits
Happiness
Comes

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There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
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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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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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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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Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.
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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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