"Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the……" — Robert Genn
"Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought."
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171 Quotes by Robert Genn
Robert Genn has 171 quotes on this site.
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Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.
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When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise
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Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of…
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless,
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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…
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Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be…
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.
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More Afterthought Quotes
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Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.
— Stephen Levine
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At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have…
— Eric Schmidt
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Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an…
— Heidi Hayes Jacobs
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Every thought is an afterthought.
— Hannah Arendt
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The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand.…
— Bill Walsh
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I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
— Gertrude Stein
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Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.
— Alan Cohen
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Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender.…
— Robert Ardrey
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Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.
— Andy Hargreaves
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I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing…
— Seth Godin
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Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library…
— Bertrand Meyer
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They may be big in Switzerland, but so are yodellers, and nobody wants to watch them fight. Heavyweight title fights…
— David Haye
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