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The Artist's Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self
by

Julia Cameron

Alison Stegert's review

Jul 15, 2017

it was amazing

bookshelves: creativity, writers-essentials

Read 2 times. Last read April 4, 2017 to July 16, 2017.

Julia Cameron has a lot to say about creativity and says it well, yet there's still room for the reader to think and discover for themselves. I was amazed at how the reflection and journalling I did on one chapter led to conclusions and questions that were consistently unpacked in the NEXT chapter. Very clever.

The book is full of meaty quotes from other artists, but Cameron has a few quote-worthy statements herself. My favourite:

"The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”

My blog, Alphabet Soup has more of my thoughts about this worthwhile course and book.

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“Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

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“Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

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“the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

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“Art is born in attention.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

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“Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

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“We must trust our process, look beyond “results.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

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“To be an artist is to recognize the particular. To appreciate the peculiar. To allow a sense of play in your relationship to accepted standards. To ask the question “Why?” To be an artist is to risk admitting that much of what is money, property, and prestige strikes you as just a little silly.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

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“Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

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“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

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“True life is lived when tiny changes occur. LEO TOLSTOY Creative living requires the luxury of time, which we carve out for ourselves—even if it’s fifteen minutes for quick morning pages and a ten-minute minibath after work.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

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“success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

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