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Flowers are an education in a vase.

Robert Genn

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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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Vases
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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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A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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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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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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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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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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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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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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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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