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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
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Thing
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Greater
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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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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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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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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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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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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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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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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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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.
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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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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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A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.
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