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Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.

Sara Genn

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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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Artists and their subjects are the star-crossed lovers of the world. They recognize each other on impact.
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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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Stretch your goals... In other words, think big and think far off.
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You are responsible for understanding your limitations.
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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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Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.
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Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.
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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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Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.
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You are responsible for radicalizing your strengths.
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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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These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.
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Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.
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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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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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Art is a perfectly complete cause.
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If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.
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Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.
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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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