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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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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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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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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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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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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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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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While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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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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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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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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Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
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