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Composition Quotes by Robert Genn
- Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
- One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
- Watch the greater image materialize. You need that thing over there to tell you what to do about that thing over here.
- A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability...
- With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or…
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