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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Disciplines
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Personal
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Needs

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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
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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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There is no progress without product.
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The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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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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An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.
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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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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
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Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.
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While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
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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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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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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
Robert Genn