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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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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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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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Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.
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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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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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Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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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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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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