Julia Cameron Quotes

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Being a creative person, I want to feel the highs and the lows.

Seriously, my heart is to just go forward as far as I can, making music that I love and seeing where the journey takes me.

As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Our art is an adventure. It is a dream come true.

So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

Just trying to live our lives and figuring out how to turn that into art. It's tough to say that the art was premeditated. Instead you just focused on living. 'How do I want to live? What do I want to do?' Then you figured out how to make that into art.

I remind myself Vincent van Gogh died without having sold a single painting. Like, art is not measured by the trappings that people attached to it. It's the thing itself, and so, as you know, it's been a dream of mine to write songs for Disney, and so, it's really exciting to finally hear. It's two and a half years.

It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.

Making art is an act of faith.

I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done things for my career or for my family.

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

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.

I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.

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.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

I remember a distinct moment when it was my junior year of college, and the content I was making was changing and not really myself, and I tried to switch back to just putting me out there. I'm happy that happened really early in my career, because that was before I started doing podcasts or writing.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.