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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 capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/in-order-to-thrive-as-artists-we-need-to-be-available-to-the/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

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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 nurtured and encourages first by our nuclear family and then by ever-widening circles of friends, teachers, well-wishers. As…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/one-of-our-chief-needs-as-creative-beings-is-support-unfortunately/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

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## More by Julia Cameron

> [All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/all-too-often-it-is-audacity-and-not-talent-that-moves-an-artist-to/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

> [Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/fatigue-can-make-it-hard-to-have-faith-too-much-busyness-can-make-it/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

> [We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/we-are-not-accustomed-to-thinking-that-god-s-will-for-us-and-our-own/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

> [What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/what-we-really-want-to-do-is-what-we-are-really-meant-to-do/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

> [The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/the-need-to-be-a-great-artist-makes-it-hard-to-be-an-artist-the-need/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

> [All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/all-of-us-contain-a-divine-expressive-spark-a-creative-candle/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

> [Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/possibility-is-far-more-frightening-than-impossibility/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

> [Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/creativity-is-our-true-nature-blocks-are-an-unnatural-thwarting-of-a/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

> [Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/just-as-a-good-rain-clears-the-air-a-good-writing-day-clears-the/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

> [Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/survival-lies-in-sanity-and-sanity-lies-in-paying-attention-the/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

> [Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/technology-teaches-passivity-absorbed-in-our-devices-at-any-age-we/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/there-s-this-mythology-that-parents-are-supposed-to-be-parents-24-7/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

> [Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/perfectionism-is-not-a-quest-for-the-best-it-is-a-pursuit-of-the/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

> [I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/i-am-compassionate-i-allow-my-heart-and-imagination-to-embrace-the/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

> [All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/all-change-can-be-expansive-in-potential-the-choice-is-ours/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

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