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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.

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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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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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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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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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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Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
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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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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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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
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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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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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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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