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You are responsible for radicalizing your strengths.

Sara Genn

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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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Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.
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Art is a perfectly complete cause.
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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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Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.
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You are responsible for understanding your limitations.
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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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Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.
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Stretch your goals... In other words, think big and think far off.
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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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Could rivalry be a productive system?
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If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.
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Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.
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Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.
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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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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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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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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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Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.
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