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Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.
Sara Genn
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Play is your route to mastery.
Sara Genn
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Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.
Sara Genn
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Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.
Sara Genn
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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.
Sara Genn
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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.
Sara Genn
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Joy is my energy and energy is my powerhouse.
Sara Genn
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Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.
Sara Genn
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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?
Sara Genn
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Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.
Sara Genn
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Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery.
Sara Genn
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Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.
Sara Genn
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You are solely responsible for doing the work required to become better.
Sara Genn
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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.
Sara Genn
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In the art game we do our own cooking.
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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.
Sara Genn
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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.
Sara Genn
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Art is a perfectly complete cause.
Sara Genn
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Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire.
Sara Genn
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The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.
Sara Genn
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If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.
Sara Genn
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New surroundings have a way of returning attention to areas that may have become rote.
Sara Genn
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These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.
Sara Genn
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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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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.
Sara Genn
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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.
Sara Genn
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Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.
Sara Genn
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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.
Sara Genn
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Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.
Sara Genn
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Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.
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You are responsible for radicalizing your strengths.
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Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.
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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.
Sara Genn
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To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.
Sara Genn
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Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.
Sara Genn
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Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.
Sara Genn
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Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.
Sara Genn
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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.
Sara Genn
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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.
Sara Genn
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Why all these years have I been agreeably turning down the stereo every time the phone rings?
Sara Genn
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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.
Sara Genn
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Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.
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As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair.
Sara Genn
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Could rivalry be a productive system?
Sara Genn
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As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.
Sara Genn
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You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.
Sara Genn
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I can hide as much as I want in my colours
Sara Genn
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Stretch your goals... In other words, think big and think far off.
Sara Genn
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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.
Sara Genn
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Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.
Sara Genn