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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
Beauty
Life
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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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Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.
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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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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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The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.
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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
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Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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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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Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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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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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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