Robert Genn Quotes - Page 8

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• An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.

  Robert Genn

  Hands, Design, Sake

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• A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

  Robert Genn

  Art, May, Selling

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• The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Wine, Bottles

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• The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known and set upon than the eyes. The mouth is also riddled with a complex interweaving of folds, curves, flats and lost-and-found edges. These nuances are needed by a perceptive person who might try to understand human nature.

  Robert Genn

  Eye, Kissing, Curves

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• No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but they feel perfectly comfortable staring over an artist's shoulder while he is trying to paint.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Trying, Looks

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• An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.

  Robert Genn

  Bumps, Odd, Charm

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• I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.

  Robert Genn

  Running, Home, Fire

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