“I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.” ~Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
Category: Thought
Thought for Thursday
“Art is the perfection of nature and life through the artist, who has supreme control of technique and is thereby liberated from it.” ~ Bruce Lee
Thought for Thursday
“Creativity is like electricity: throw the switch, and it is there.” ~Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
Thought for Thursday
“When painting I am walking a tightrope. I might slip off at any moment. Sometimes, when I am brave, I can hop along the rope or even somersault. These are the moments when I paint not from the visual world but from somewhere inside me.” Emily Patrick
Thought for Thursday
“People say, ‘I love your work, it’s so detailed.’ But that’s like saying, ‘I love your sweater, it has lots of stitches.'” Robert Bateman
Thought for Thursday
“You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is…..unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.” Alice Neel
Thought for Thursday
“Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.” –- Eric Maisel, creativity coach
Thought for Thursday, on Friday Because I Forgot What Day it Was
“When I’m painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing. It’s only after a get acquainted period that I see what I’ve been about.”~ Jackson Pollack
Thought for Thursday
“Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down.” – Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way
Thought for Thursday
“It took me forty years to find out that painting is not sculpture.” ~ Paul Cezanne, artist