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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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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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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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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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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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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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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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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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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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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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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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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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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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