Sara Genn Quotes

Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.

Play is your route to mastery.

Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.

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

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.

Joy is my energy and energy is my powerhouse.

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

Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.

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

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.

You are responsible for radicalizing your strengths.

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.

Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.

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

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

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

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.

In the art game we do our own cooking.

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

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

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.

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

Art is a perfectly complete cause.

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

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.

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

Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.

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

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

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

Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.

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

Pay no attention to the less courageous.

Could rivalry be a productive system?

You are responsible for understanding your limitations.

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

I can hide as much as I want in my colours

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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