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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.

Robert Genn

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

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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
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Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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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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The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.
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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.
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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 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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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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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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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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