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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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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.
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I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.
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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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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.
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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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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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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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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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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 job of art is to turn time into things.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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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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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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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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