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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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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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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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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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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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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 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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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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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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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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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.
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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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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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