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Our currency is what we are able to make.

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Commerce
Currency
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It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
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A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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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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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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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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Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.
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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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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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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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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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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.
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