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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Acrylic
Faster
Bits
Happiness
Comes

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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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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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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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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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Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
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An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.
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The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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