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Creativity is our true nature blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.
Julia Cameron
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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
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People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.
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Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.
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You are on the look out for experience, strength, and hope. You want to hear from the horse's mouth exactly how disappointments have been survived. It helps to know that the greats have had hard times too and that your own hard times merely make you part of the club.
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You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.
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Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.
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My will for you is not harsh or unpleasant. It is gentle and perfectly tailored to your unique needs. Do not fear my direction. I am your heart's happiest guide.
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Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
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Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.
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Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.
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As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.
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Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.
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When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.
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Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.
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Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I follow it and lay it down. I can pare it, shape it, and polish it later...My job is to take down the dribs and drabs - to free-associate, if you will, knowing that the associations have their own plans for where we're going with all this.
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All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.
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Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.
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Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.
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No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.
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When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.
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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 the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .
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