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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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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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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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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.
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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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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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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 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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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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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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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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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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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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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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