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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.
Robert Genn
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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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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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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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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.
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While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
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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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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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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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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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There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.
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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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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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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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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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