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Art Quotes by Julia Cameron
- Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
- In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
- As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.
- Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.
- The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. Â These are the elements of magic, and magic is the…
- The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. Â The need to produce a great work of art makes…
- Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
- At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
- As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all. When we…
- As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that…
- Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in…
- The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to our creativity, we…
- Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.
- As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.
- I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
- Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.
- We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.
- Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.
- Serious art is born from serious play.
- When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the…
- The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it…
- No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too…
- Art is born in attention.
- Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.
- Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov