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Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Trusted
Pushing
Extremes
Reliably
Blow
Cobwebs
Miracle
Blows
Habit
Substitutes
Safe
Insecurity
Shakes

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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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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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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.
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Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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