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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
Curiosity
Senses
Ability
Compositional
Heightens
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Prompts
Composition

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In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.
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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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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 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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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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Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.
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It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
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The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.
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Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
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Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.
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Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
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Drawing is still the bottom line.
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I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.
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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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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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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
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No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
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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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Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.
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A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
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