“As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them-to restock the trout pond, so to speak. I call this process filling the well.
Filling the well involves the active pursuit of images to refresh our artistic reservoirs. Art is born in attention. Its mid-wife is detail. Art may seem to spring from pain, but perhaps that is because pain serves to focus our attention onto details (for instance, the excruciatingly beautiful curve of a lost lover’s neck.) Art may seem to involve broad strokes, grand schemes, great plans. But it is the attention to detail that stays with us; the singular image is what haunts us and becomes art…” – Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
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