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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
Robert Genn
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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 high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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There is no progress without product.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
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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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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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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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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 Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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