The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
[10th Anniversary Edition]
By Julia Cameron
Product Description
The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today-or perhaps even more so-than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work. In a new introduction to the book, Julia Cameron reflects upon the impact of The Artist’s Way and describes the work she has done during the last decade and the new insights into the creative process that she has gained. Updated and expanded, this anniversary edition reframes The Artist’s Way for a new century.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1027 in Books
- Published on: 2002-03-04
- Released on: 2002-02-28
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 237 pages
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.
This book links creativity to spirituality by showing how to connect with the creative energies of the universe, and has, in the four years since its publication, spawned a remarkable number of support groups for artists dedicated to practicing the exercises it contains.
Customer Reviews
Life changing book
This book got into my hands at a crucial moment in my life and has been a life changing experience. I would recommend it to anyone struggling with self doubt about your capacity to create art.
Do the 12 weeks and you will discover a new you.
A manual for artistic recovery
My boyfriend and I have an ongoing argument about whether fear or laziness is more likely to keep someone from action. He claims it’s laziness, but my answer is fear.
Julia Cameron would seem to agree with me. Her book, a classic for “blocked” artists, outlines a 12-week program for “creative recovery.” Week one is devoted to the tension between “the dream of action and the fear of failure.”
I discovered The Artist’s Way nearly two years ago, and it became I lifeline for me as I recommitted myself to singing.
The book’s numerous exercises helped me discover and confront the fears that held me back from fully pursuing my dream.
Self-acceptance and the freedom to fail have been essential to me as I’ve taken new artistic risks, and they are woven throughout Cameron’s recipe for success.
The spiritual overtones in The Artist’s Way might not appeal to all readers. However, I found it easy to “translate” these into my own words, and I highly recommend the book to anyone who has fallen into a creative rut.
The Artist’s Way
If you are looking for validation for the talents you think might be lurking around inside you somewhere, you need to read this. It will remind you that there’s more to who you are than just a work-producing-robot! With The Artist’s Way as my workbook, I am now reading Cameron’s Right to Write and am looking forward to Vein of Gold. Just get the book. If she wrote the phone book I think I’d read it
arpijikii
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