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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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Composition
Curiosity
Senses
Ability
Compositional
Heightens
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.
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Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.
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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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I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
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Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.
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Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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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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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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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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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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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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We artists allow others to see through our windows.
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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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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.
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