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The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.
Julia Cameron
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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
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Libertyville
Illinois
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The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . . Fear is what blocks an artist. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of not finishing. The fear of failure and of success. The fear of beginning at all.
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Making art is an act of faith.
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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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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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I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.
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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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We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.
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If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.
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There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures.
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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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We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.
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Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.
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I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
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Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.
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I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.
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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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As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.
Julia Cameron
Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
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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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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
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