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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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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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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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Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.
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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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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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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 overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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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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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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