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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
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Passages
Museums
Beauty
Life
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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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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.
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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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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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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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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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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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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.
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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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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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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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