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Know that to begin is often better than to think.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Often
Better
Think
Thinking
Begin

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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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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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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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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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A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.
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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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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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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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