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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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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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There is no progress without product.
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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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In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.
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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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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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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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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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