Top 56 Sara Genn Quotes

#1. Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.

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#2. Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.

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#3. Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.

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#4. These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

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#5. Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.

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#6. You are solely responsible for doing the work required to become better.

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#7. Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.

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#8. New surroundings have a way of returning attention to areas that may have become rote.

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#9. Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.

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#10. In the art game we do our own cooking.

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#11. Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.

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#12. As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair.

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#13. A millionaire is a person who is free, who does what she loves, who has unlimited materials, her choice of tools, abundance, inspiration, freedom and an inflated sense of entitlement to have, create and get more.

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#14. Value choices are intuitive ... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.

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#15. Remember the importance of phrases ... a piece of something, an entry, a moment, a mark. This adjusts the pressure of the giant task of creating the perfect masterwork.

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#16. I can hide as much as I want in my colours

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#17. Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when we knew less. These are the essentials of continued aesthetic discovery.

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#18. Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.

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#19. Tear-stained flops are necessary. They're the gift you give yourself when you're willing to fly.

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#20. There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.

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#21. Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.

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#22. Art is a perfectly complete cause.

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#23. Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.

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#24. Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context. It's a market.

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#25. Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.

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#26. You are responsible for understanding your limitations.

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#27. Why all these years have I been agreeably turning down the stereo every time the phone rings?

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#28. Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.

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#29. Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery.

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#30. Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.

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#31. Why can't we all just acknowledge that 'nature' - that is, 'sex' or 'erotic' images, which are really just 'attracters' are everywhere. Of course a flower looks like what it looks like - that's what it is - to a bee.

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#32. Joy is my energy and energy is my powerhouse.

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#33. Every task is given equal importance - that way I can pick and choose my tasks based on the ebb and flow of my creative metabolism.

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#34. Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.

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#35. The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

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#36. You are responsible for radicalizing your strengths.

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#37. Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume ... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.

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#38. I'll put into words my experience as it is unfolding now in my life ... in such a way that I might find comfort in knowing that someone else has the same thoughts and experiences.

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#39. In modern times we are often encouraged to protect our ego-force and individuality by securing a private world in which to develop our unique artistic voice. Many artists find themselves solo-paddling along a private and unchallenging river ... Could rivalry be a productive system?

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#40. The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.

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#41. Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire.

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#42. Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling of connection. It could just be the colour. But it is something that someone other than you has seen and felt. It is momentous. It is magic.

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#43. Play is your route to mastery.

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#44. Art is sometimes likened to a mirror ... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.

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#45. Pay no attention to the less courageous.

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#46. Some artists approach their 'why?' intuitively, and work toward giving it a voice through their technical skill. Others begin as technicians, and develop, or discover, their 'why?' as they become stronger communicators.

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#47. You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

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#48. To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.

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#49. I value the momentum of making the list and the drive to tick. Sometimes I add stuff I've already accomplished so I can get going on my feelings of accomplishment.

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#50. Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you ... there's someone who knows something you don't, who has honed a skill more than you have. Rival your rival.

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#51. If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.

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#52. Stretch your goals ... In other words, think big and think far off.

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#53. As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.

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#54. Artists and their subjects are the star-crossed lovers of the world. They recognize each other on impact.

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#55. The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.

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#56. Scientists tracking mirror neurons noticed that a monkey will get excited not just when holding a banana, but also when seeing someone else holding a banana.

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