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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Cobwebs
Drawing
Keeps
Away
Art

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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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