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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
Ability
Compositional
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Composition
Curiosity
Senses

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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
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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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Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.
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Art is a path on which we honour our world.
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It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
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A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
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When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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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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Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
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Flowers are an education in a vase.
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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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Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
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As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.
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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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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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For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
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In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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