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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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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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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.
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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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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 brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
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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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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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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 artists allow others to see through our windows.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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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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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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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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Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.
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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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