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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
Ability
Compositional
Heightens
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Composition
Curiosity

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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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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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There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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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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The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.
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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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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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You're right, super-realism is back in style.
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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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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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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
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Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
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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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One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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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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