"People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

As we lose our vagueness about our self, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered.

Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression. We become original because we become something specific: an origin from which work flows."

Julia Cameron

I saw a documentary of Takashi Murakami too and I enjoy the simplicity of this

Our job as artists is to bring out what is inside

also this haha

I'm not particularly obsessed with painting. I've happened to employ 300 people. If it's going to work, I have to make money. Having created such a situation means I can make good art in the workshop. Getting money so that the company doesn't go under is what drives me.