Julia Cameron Quotes

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

It's important to see the work of as many directors as possible but you must not become self-conscious. You have to accept that your first attempts are going to be quite rough compared to the finished works of great masters.

The more movies you make, the better you will get.

Allowing yourself to suck is the hard part of writing music. If you allow yourself to suck, you will probably write something better.

If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

We're often afraid to do anything unless we know we can do it extremely well. But we get to Carnegie Hall by practicing. I remember how freeing it was several years ago to read in an interview with Joan Baez that some of Bob Dylan's early songs weren't so wonderful. We have this image of genius springing fully grown out of Zeus' forehead.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians to reach beyond what they know, go into unknown territory and explore. It's made a difference to me and the decisions that I've made over the years about how to approach a project in this music.

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.