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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Feelings
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Inadequacy
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Accomplishment
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch it's good to know your personal limit.
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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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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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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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Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.
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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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