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Our currency is what we are able to make.

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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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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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.
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The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.
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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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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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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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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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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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Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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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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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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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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