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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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Curiosity
Senses
Ability
Compositional
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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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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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.
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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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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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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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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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By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
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The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.
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As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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