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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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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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Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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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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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
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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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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
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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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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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