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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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Curiosity
Senses
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It's okay to doubt. It's important to test. The way to discover secrets is to be a student of your own efforts.
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God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
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The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
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Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
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The job of art is to turn time into things.
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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 every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
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For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
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Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
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This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
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Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
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An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.
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Our currency is what we are able to make.
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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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Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
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