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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.

Robert Genn

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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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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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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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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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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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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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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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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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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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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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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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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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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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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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