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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
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Compositional
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Composition
Curiosity
Senses

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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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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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We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.
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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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As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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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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Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs professionals get to work.
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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.
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A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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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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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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