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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Passage
Passages
Museums
Beauty
Life
Museum

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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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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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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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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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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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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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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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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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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.
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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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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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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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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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