Julie Andrews Quotes

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.

I can concentrate on my art.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

I stay in the studio diligently. I'm always trying to create.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can't draw in the evening. I need light and I need warmth if it is a summer thing, and I need cold if it is a winter collection. The good thing is that I have houses to go to whenever I'm working. I draw according to the place.

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

When I make a picture, I make love.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

We work hard when we're in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.