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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

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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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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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.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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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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