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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.

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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Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
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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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Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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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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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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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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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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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.
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