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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.

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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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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.
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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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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
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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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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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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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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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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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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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One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
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