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Flowers are an education in a vase.

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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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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.
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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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There is no progress without product.
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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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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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Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.
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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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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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