Julia Cameron Quotes

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

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.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.

Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time and something which is elusive all the time.

Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

My friend advised me to go into studying art, which at first shocked me because art was so easy. It was just something I did, like breathing or brushing my teeth. It couldn't be a job. I had a much more difficult time writing plays, making myself sit at that typewriter and finish those things.

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

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.

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.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.

You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?