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We artists allow others to see through our windows.

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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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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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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
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Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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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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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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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
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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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Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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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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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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