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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
Museum
Passage
Passages
Museums
Beauty
Life

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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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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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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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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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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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The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.
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