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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.

Robert Genn

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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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Magic
Become
Play
Wizard
Wizards
Fingers

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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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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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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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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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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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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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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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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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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.
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An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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