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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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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.
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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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