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The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
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Robert Douglas Genn
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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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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I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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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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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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There is no progress without product.
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The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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