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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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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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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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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
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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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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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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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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.
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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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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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