Sara Genn Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.”
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“Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.”
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“Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery.”
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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.”
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“Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.”
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“Stretch your goals... In other words, think big and think far off.”
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“The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.”
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“Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire.”
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“Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Joy is my energy and energy is my powerhouse.”
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“You are responsible for understanding your limitations.”
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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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“Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.”
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“You are responsible for radicalizing your strengths.”
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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.”
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“If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.”
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“As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.”
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“You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.”
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“To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.”
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“Tear-stained flops are necessary. They're the gift you give yourself when you're willing to fly.”
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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.”
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“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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“As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair.”
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“Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.”
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“Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.”
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