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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
Art
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Spirituality
Mystery
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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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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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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