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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
Senses
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Curiosity

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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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By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
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In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.
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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
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Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.
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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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No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
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In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.
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The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
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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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Fact is, perfection is boring.
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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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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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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.
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Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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