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• Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

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  Creativity, Being Alone, Artist

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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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  Mistake, Thinking, Way

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• Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.

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  Nuclear, Sun, Uncommon

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• When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.

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  Passion, Proficiency, Habitual

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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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  Thinking, Innovation, Peculiar

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• Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.

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  Curiosity, Curious, Creator

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• Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.

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  Power, Accomplishment, Feelings

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• Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

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  Suggestions, Mystery, Description

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• To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.

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  Clouds, Becoming One, Effort

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• Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap.

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  Style, Handicaps, Fine

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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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  Quality, Titles, Action

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.144, Studio Beckett Publications

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• No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.

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  Discipline, Needs, Matter

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• Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.

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  Depression, Spring, Passion

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• Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.

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  Jobs, Artist, Approval Of Others

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• I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that it is not going to be the masterpiece I thought it would be, and I start putting my hopes into the next work.

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  Littles, Next, Would Be

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.39, Studio Beckett Publications

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• Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.

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  Art, Differences, Treasure

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• Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery rather that obvious description. Like a good poem, a good abstraction attacks your feelings before your understanding. Abstraction within realism adds zest and excitement to otherwise dull subject matter. Abstract understanding takes time and patience.

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  Art, Mean, Zest

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• More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.

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  Red, Action, Colour

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• Art is a path on which we honour our world.

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  Art, Our World, Path

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• In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.

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  Thinking, Cover Ups, Painting

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• I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.

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  Artist, Guarantees, Authenticity

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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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  Art, Jobs, People

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• Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.

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  Dog, Angel, Order

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• The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined to accept them as serious like themselves. It's an unfortunate quirk of human nature and ought not to be fretted over.

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  Art, Ocean, Acceptance

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• In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.

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  Faster, Bits

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