How To Avoid Making Art?

1. Make your first project really big.

2. Tell yourself you can only work in absolute quiet.

3. Compare your work to masterworks of the great masters.

4. Attempt something really complicated.

5. Be in a big hurry.

6. Take seriously every negative thing anyone says.

7. Slide into despair rather than take one small exploratory action.

8. Talk about it so you don't have to do it.

9. Consider the odds against whatever you make ever selling.

10. Demand that what you do be absolutely original, totally brilliant, and never done before.

11. Demand 15 hours of free time to create, so you can ignore the 15 minutes you've got.

12. Focus on how much is left, not on how much is done.

13. Under no circumstances make any art just for fun.

14. Tell yourself you have "no time" for a hobby, then watch T.V. to keep from being depressed.

15. Focus on your future as a homeless person, caused by your pursuing your dream.

16. Tell yourself you need your family's approval.

17. Tell yourself that art is a terribly hard career path.

18. Decide you can't afford a drawing class and get new jeans to console yourself.

19. Let your studio accumulate enough clutter that work becomes impossible there.

20. Ask a lot of people their opinion of your plan.

21. Rather than make art, read about art.

22. Think about your art instead of doing it.

23. Read books about "How To Avoid Making Art" instead of making art.

Ok, so I made up the last one, but the rest are taken straight from Julia Cameron's book - "How To Avoid Making Art (or Anything Else You Enjoy)". I swear to God, this book was written with me in mind!