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When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a journalist.’ And, uh, turned out we were both right.
Julia Cameron
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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
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We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.
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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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Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.
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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
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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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At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
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Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
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And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.
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We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.
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Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.
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If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.
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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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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.
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When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.
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Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.
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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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The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.
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By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.
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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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Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
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