"The grace to be a beginner is always……" — Julia Cameron

"The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist."

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227 Quotes by Julia Cameron

Julia Cameron has 227 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are…
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that…
I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you…
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with…
The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and…
An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown…

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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… — 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… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — 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… — 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… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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