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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.

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

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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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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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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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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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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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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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Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
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The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
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Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.
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Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
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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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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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The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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There is no progress without product.
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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
Robert Genn