The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself to Saturday mornings in the deep end. You're either losing your mind - or gaining… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, moist rags. I would lay words on your forehead. I would wrap words on your wrists. 'There, there,' my words would say - Or something better. I would ask them to murmur, 'Hush' and 'Shh, shhh, it's all right.' I would ask them to hold you all night. I… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping. — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus? — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
Personal sympathy has helped me on very much. My husband from first to last has watched every picture with delight, and it is my daily habit to run to him with every glass upon which a fresh glory is newly stamped, and to listen to his enthusiastic applause. This habit of running into the dining-room with my wet pictures has… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share
When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a painter is painting, he or she may begin with a plan, but that plan is soon surrendered to the painting's own plan. This is often expressed as 'The brush takes the next stroke.' In dance, in composition, in… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share
I believe that... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming to something… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
