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Art Quotes by Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron says that daring moves an artist forward more than raw talent. She warns that the pressure to create a masterpiece can freeze any attempt, and she celebrates the tiny bits of progress that keep the creative fire alive. The quotes also note that art has no retirement age and can heal hidden rooms within us.

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Making art is an act of faith.

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A working artist is a playing artist.

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Art is born in attention.

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Our internal artist is always our creative child.

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Serious art is born from serious play.

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At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

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Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

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The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.

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All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

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Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.

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Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.

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I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

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There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

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Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the…

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By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very…

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No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it…

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We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

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The original 'Artist's Way' focused on the nurturing of the self. The 'Artist's Way for Parents' focuses both on nurturing the self…

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Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

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Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with…

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“Mulling on the page is an artless art form. It is fooling around. It is doodling. It is the way that ideas…

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It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on…

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I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that…

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As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in…

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In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our…

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As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us…

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Artists love other artists. Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright. Very often audacity, not…

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Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really -…

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One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by. Ideally, we would be…

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The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to…

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In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked…

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If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia…

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“The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. The beginner’s humility and openness lead to exploration.…

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“THE VIRTUE TRAP An artist must have downtime, time to do nothing. Defending our right to such time takes courage, conviction, and…

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“Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. This happens in any number of ways: beginning work is measured against the masterworks…

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When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very…

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Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

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Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

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Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

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All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude…

We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes…

All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of…

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.

There's this mythology that parents are supposed to be parents 24/7 and are supposed to be completely fulfilled by their kids. That's not the…

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing…

I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find…

All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.