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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
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Robert Douglas Genn
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.
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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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Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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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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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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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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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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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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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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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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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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