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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 .

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
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Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
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In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.
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Serious art is born from serious play.
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I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.
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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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Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.
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We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.
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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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But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play? Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.
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Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.
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At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.
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I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move through me, in a sense, what wants to be written is none of my business.
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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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Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.
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It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.
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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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No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.
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