The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

In filling the well, follow your sense of the mysterious, not your sense of what you should know more about.

“Leap, and the net will appear.”

Make this a rule: always remember that your Censor’s negative opinions are not the truth. This takes practice.

we often resist what we most need.

It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance.

Filling the well involves the active pursuit of images to refresh our artistic reservoirs. Art is born in attention.

The experience of creative living argues that hobbies are in fact essential to the joyful life.

Joseph Campbell, wrote, “Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.” It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.