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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.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
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Practice being kind to yourself in small, concrete ways. Look at your refrigerator. Are you feeding yourself nicely? Do you have socdks? An extra set of sheets? What about a new house plant? A thermos for the long drive to work? Allow yourself to pitch out some of your ragged clothes. You don't have to keep everything.
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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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Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he made it all anyway. He didn't let the aardvark convince him he had no business designing creatures. He didn't make a puffer fish and get discouraged, no, the maker made things - and still does.
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In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
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Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.
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You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.
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At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.
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As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.
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Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
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The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.
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By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.
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I learned, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: What next? instead of Why me? . . . Whenever I am willing to ask What is necessary next? I have moved ahead. Whenever I have taken no for a final answer I have stalled and gotten stuck.
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It hurts like hell when the world won't invest in you. But it's excruciating, almost more than you can bear, when you don't believe and invest in yourself.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
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When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.
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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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