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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

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

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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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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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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
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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 high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
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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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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
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