“Be sympathetic to the maker and realize that the mere act of putting yourself and your work out there takes courage.”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.com
“We should also value work by artists focused not just on craftsmanship but on the effective execution of good ideas. It's the thought they bring to the form, or have others bring to the form, and not just the form itself.”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.com
“Rather than devote their lives to mastering a particular medium, some artists began to push the boundaries of those mediums and even forgo them all together. There's sculpture that is purposefully unmonumental, paintings purposefully non-virtuosic, drawings purposefully simple. It's not that these t…”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.com
“I think it's perfectly fine to have a preference for art that displays manual talents unavailable to most.”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.com
“When you say, 'I could do that', what you're really saying, and what I would encourage you to say next time is, 'This doesn't display a remarkable amount of skill. And that's what I really look for in art.'”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.com
“The next time you walk into a gallery and you see something you think is ridiculous, maybe think about what you've been trained to expect when you walk into a museum, what around you is forming your opinion, and see yourself as an active agent in determining what it is, why it is, and whether you, a…”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.com