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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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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
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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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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
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As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.
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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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All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.
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There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.
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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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An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.
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We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.
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Art is born in attention.
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