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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.

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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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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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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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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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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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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By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
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