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

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.
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Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.
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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.
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Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.
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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.
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Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.
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Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.
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Pay no attention to the less courageous.
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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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If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.
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You are responsible for understanding your limitations.
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Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.
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Could rivalry be a productive system?
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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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Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.
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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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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.
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You are responsible for radicalizing your strengths.
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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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Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.
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