Sara Genn
Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.Collection: Color
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.Collection: Giving
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.Collection: Creative
Play is your route to mastery.Collection: Play
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.Collection: Education
Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.Collection: Favourite
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.Collection: Creating
Tear-stained flops are necessary. They're the gift you give yourself when you're willing to fly.Collection: Giving
Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery.Collection: Joy
Pay no attention to the less courageous.Collection: Courage
Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.Collection: Failure
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.Collection: Mirrors
Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.Collection: Masters
Stretch your goals... In other words, think big and think far off.Collection: Thinking
Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.Collection: Creative
To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.Collection: Baby
Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.Collection: Eggs
If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.Collection: Artist
You are responsible for understanding your limitations.Collection: Understanding
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?Collection: Artist
Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.Collection: Vibrancy
I can hide as much as I want in my coloursCollection: Want
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.Collection: Artist
Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.Collection: Example
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.Collection: Art
These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Inspiration
Why all these years have I been agreeably turning down the stereo every time the phone rings?Collection: Phones
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.Collection: Artist
New surroundings have a way of returning attention to areas that may have become rote.Collection: Attention
You are solely responsible for doing the work required to become better.Collection: Responsibility
Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.Collection: Art
You are responsible for radicalizing your strengths.Collection: Strength
Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.Collection: Travel
Joy is my energy and energy is my powerhouse.Collection: Joy
As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair.Collection: Artist
In the art game we do our own cooking.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Accomplishment
Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Sex
Could rivalry be a productive system?Collection: Rivalry
Art is a perfectly complete cause.Collection: Art
The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.Collection: Keys
Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire.Collection: Inspire
Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Ebb And Flow
As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.Collection: Artist
Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.Collection: Fun
Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.Collection: Shining
Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.Collection: Art