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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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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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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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Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
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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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With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
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