I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.
Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you.