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The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
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Emotional
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Collectors
Art
Brilliance
Even
Touches
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Reaching
Spirituality
Mystery

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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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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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I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.
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Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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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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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.
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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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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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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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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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