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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
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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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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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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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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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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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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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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
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While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
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Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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