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

Sara Genn

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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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Artists and their subjects are the star-crossed lovers of the world. They recognize each other on impact.
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You are responsible for understanding your limitations.
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Pay no attention to the less courageous.
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As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair.
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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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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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Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.
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Could rivalry be a productive system?
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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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Stretch your goals... In other words, think big and think far off.
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Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.
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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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Tear-stained flops are necessary. They're the gift you give yourself when you're willing to fly.
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If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.
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Art is a perfectly complete cause.
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Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.
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Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.
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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.
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