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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
Comes
Acrylic
Faster
Bits
Happiness

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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.
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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
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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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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
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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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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.
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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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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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