"Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse."

-- Julia Cameron

#Artist Quotes #Judging Quotes #Effort Quotes

“I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!”
“You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.”
“I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.”
“It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.”
“I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill Such a bright gold under my windowsill! Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still? Bless me! It's a daffodil!”
“I've just always been a bit of a dork.”
“It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.”
“Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.”

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