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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
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Robert Douglas Genn
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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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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Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.
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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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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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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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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 high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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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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Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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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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There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
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