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We artists allow others to see through our windows.

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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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
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It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
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Know that to begin is often better than to think.
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There is no progress without product.
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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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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.
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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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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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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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An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.
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A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.
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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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