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Artist Quotes by Julia Cameron
- An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This…
- Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.
- 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.
- All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.
- It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the…
- 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…
- One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Â Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by. Â Ideally, we would be nurtured…
- Artists love other artists. Â Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright. Â Very often audacity, not talent,…
- Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Â Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to…
- 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…
- In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If…
- Our internal artist is always our creative child.
- 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…
- The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.
- 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…
- 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.
- By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.
- Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.
- So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls…
- It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so…
- Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often…
- Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
- 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…
More Artist Quotes
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu