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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.

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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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Flourishes
Small
Creative

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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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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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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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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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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
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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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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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I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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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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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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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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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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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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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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