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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
Visits
Destination
Required
Worthy
Journey
Many

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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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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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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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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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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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As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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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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