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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
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Need
Needs
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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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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The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.
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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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There is no progress without product.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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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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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.
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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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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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