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Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
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Robert Douglas Genn
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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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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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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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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.
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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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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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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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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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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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