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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
Wizards
Fingers
Materials
Magic
Become
Play
Wizard

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The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.
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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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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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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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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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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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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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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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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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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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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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Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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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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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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