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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Visits
Destination
Required
Worthy
Journey
Many

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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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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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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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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
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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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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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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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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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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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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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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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A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.
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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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