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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
Robert Genn
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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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While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
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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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An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.
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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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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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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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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
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By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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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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