Sara Genn Quotes

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

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

Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.

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

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

Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.

Joy is my energy and energy is my powerhouse.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.

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

Art is a perfectly complete cause.

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.

You are responsible for understanding your limitations.

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

Pay no attention to the less courageous.

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

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

Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.

I can hide as much as I want in my colours

You are responsible for radicalizing your strengths.

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

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

Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.

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

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.

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

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

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

Play is your route to mastery.

Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.

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

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

In the art game we do our own cooking.