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In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Composition
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Dancing
Dance
Creativity
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Conduit
Sculpture

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Creativity is not and never has been sensible.
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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
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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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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
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We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.
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We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.
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Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
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Creativity is a spiritual issue.
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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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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 realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.
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In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
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Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.
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Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.
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Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.
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By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.
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My heart holds the world in tender awe.
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Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.
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Artists love other artists. Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright. Very often audacity, not talent, makes one person an artist and another a shadow artist-hiding in the shadows, afraid to step out and expose the dream to the light, fearful that it will disintegrate to the touch.
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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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