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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.

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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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Essentially
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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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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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.
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We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.
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Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.
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As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.
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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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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch it's good to know your personal limit.
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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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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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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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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