As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair. — Sara Genn Affair Copy Share Image
Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire. — Sara Genn Ability Copy Share Image
Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself. — Sara Genn Ashtrays Copy Share Image
Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity. — Sara Genn Creative Copy Share Image
Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman. — Sara Genn Art Copy Share Image
Artists and their subjects are the star-crossed lovers of the world. They recognize each other on impact. — Sara Genn Art Copy Share Image
Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery. — Sara Genn Areas Copy Share Image
Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business. — Sara Genn A perfect world Copy Share Image
I'll put into words my experience as it is unfolding now in my life... in such a way that I might find… — Sara Genn Comfort Copy Share Image
Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you... there's someone who knows something you don't, who… — Sara Genn Education Copy Share Image
Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context.… — Sara Genn Art Copy Share Image
Some artists approach their 'why?' intuitively, and work toward giving it a voice through their technical skill. Others begin as technicians, and… — Sara Genn Approach Copy Share Image
Every task is given equal importance - that way I can pick and choose my tasks based on the ebb and flow… — Sara Genn Creative Copy Share Image
There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on… — Sara Genn Anvils Copy Share Image
The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of… — Sara Genn Chance Copy Share Image
I value the momentum of making the list and the drive to tick. Sometimes I add stuff I've already accomplished so I… — Sara Genn Accomplished Copy Share Image
Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling… — Sara Genn Artist Copy Share Image
In modern times we are often encouraged to protect our ego-force and individuality by securing a private world in which to develop… — Sara Genn Art Copy Share Image
To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness. — Sara Genn Appreciate Copy Share Image
The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog. — Sara Genn Artist Copy Share Image
If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural. — Sara Genn Art Copy Share Image
New surroundings have a way of returning attention to areas that may have become rote. — Sara Genn Areas Copy Share Image
Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast. — Sara Genn Choices Copy Share Image
Tear-stained flops are necessary. They're the gift you give yourself when you're willing to fly. — Sara Genn Flops Copy Share Image
