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We artists allow others to see through our windows.

Robert Genn

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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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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.
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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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An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.
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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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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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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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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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Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
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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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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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There is no progress without product.
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