Quotes from Julia Cameron

Acknowledge to yourself that the current criticism is triggering grief over a long-standing wound.

Hacer progresos, no llegar a la perfección es lo que deberíamos pedirnos a nosotros mismos.

Para ser realmente inmortal, una obra de arte debe escapar de todos los límites humanos: la lógica y el sentido común sólo interfieren. Pero una vez se han roto estas barreras, entrará en los reinos de las visiones y de los sueños de la infancia».

El arte saca las cosas a la luz. Nos ilumina. Arroja luz sobre la oscuridad que hay en nosotros. Proyecta un rayo luminoso sobre el corazón de nuestras sombras y dice, «¿ves?».

Anger is not the action itself. It is action's invitation.

es posible ser un artista y tener éxito económico.

La pintura es un intento de asumir la vida. Existen tantas soluciones como seres humanos». GEORGE TOOKER

Llamo a este proceso quiropraxis espiritual. Realizamos una serie de ejercicios del espíritu que nos ayudan a sintonizar con la energía creativa del universo.

Too intimidated to become artists themselves, very often too low in self-worth to even recognize that they have an artistic dream, these people become shadow artists instead.

Do not call the inability to start laziness. Call it fear. Fear is the true name for what ails the blocked artist. It may be fear of failure or fear of success. Most frequently, it is fear of abandonment. This fear has roots in childhood reality.

Artists themselves but ignorant of their true identity, shadow artists are to be found shadowing declared artists. Unable

Artists themselves but ignorant of their true identity, shadow artists are to be found shadowing declared artists. Unable to recognize that they themselves may possess the creativity they so admire, they often date or marry people who

Remember, it takes nurturing to make an artist. Shadow artists did not receive sufficient nurturing. They blame themselves for not acting fearlessly anyhow.

Tírate y aparecerá la red».

These artists, shadow artists through no fault of their own, hear the distant piping of the dream but are unable to make their way through the cultural maze to find it.

Remember, your artist is a child. Find and protect that child. Learning to let yourself create is like learning to walk.

The artist child must begin by crawling. Baby steps will follow and there will be falls—yecchy first paintings, beginning films that look like unedited home movies, first poems that would shame a greeting card.

Typically, the recovering shadow artist will use these early efforts to discourage continued exploration. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE

You're either losing your mind—or gaining your soul. Life is meant to be an artist date. That's why we were created.

QUESTION: Do you know how old I'll be by the time I learn to play the piano? ANSWER: The same age you will be if you don't.

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

Aiming for that, I learned to write setting judgment aside and save a polish for later. I called this new, freer writing "laying track." For the first time I gave myself emotional permission to do rough drafts and for those rough drafts to be, well, rough.

Clutter is the enemy of clarity.

One of the things most worth noting in creative recovery is our reluctance to take seriously the possibility that the universe just might be cooperating with our new and expanded plans. We've gotten brave enough to try recovery, but we don't want the universe to really pay much attention. We still feel too much like frauds to handle some success. When it comes, we want to go ... Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.