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A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.

Robert Genn

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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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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
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As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.
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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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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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Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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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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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.
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Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
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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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Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
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In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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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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