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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
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
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The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.
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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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We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.
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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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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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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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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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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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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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An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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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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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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