Sara Genn Quotes
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Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.
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Why all these years have I been agreeably turning down the stereo every time the phone rings?
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Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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I'll put into words my experience as it is unfolding now in my life... in such a way that I might find comfort in knowing that someone else has the same thoughts and experiences.
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Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.
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Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.
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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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Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.
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In the art game we do our own cooking.
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Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.
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As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.
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Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.
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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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Art is a perfectly complete cause.
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I can hide as much as I want in my colours
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To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.
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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.
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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?
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New surroundings have a way of returning attention to areas that may have become rote.
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Stretch your goals... In other words, think big and think far off.
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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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As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair.
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The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.
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Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.
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Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.
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Related Authors
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James Genn Film writer -
Robert Genn Artist -
Dave Genn Musician