Helpful Score: 9
The single most powerful book I've ever experienced. It is simply a life changing event. Reading this book and living this Artist's Way, opens ourselves up to the glorious nature of the world and creativity. This should be required reading. For everyone. Especially the people who don't think they are an artist. Art is life. We are all creative and feel better when we express it. And art is boundless. You can express it anyway you want. Whatever it is that you want, this book is it.
Thank you Julia Cameron. Thank you.
Thank you Julia Cameron. Thank you.
Helpful Score: 7
In "The Artist's Way" Julia Cameron offers the potential for a life-changing experience. Shed old habits; develop better ones. Trust your creative instincts. Feed the artist within. Dozens of great lessons for the artist hiding shyly within each of us. Even more for the artist who thinks she already knows herself well. Some of my friends and I discovered new talents, even new passions, as we worked through the 12-part course. I recommend it highly.
Helpful Score: 6
If you truly want to get in touch with your inner creativity, this is the definitive book on it, for both working and aspiring artists of any kind. Extremely well written and thought out.
Helpful Score: 3
I highly recommend this book, not only to artists, and potential artists and writers, but to anyone and everyone who wants to get to know themselves a little better. The exercises in the book are excellent for helping you to figure out what you really want in life and how to go about creating a life of your own choosing. I got extra copies to share with my daughters!
Helpful Score: 2
Excellent help for discovering your inner creativity
Helpful Score: 2
Empowering book that assists individuals to achieve success with their own artistic direction. Builds self confidence.
Helpful Score: 2
Amazing healing journey from the soul. Practical exercises and guidance regarding waking up the artist and gentleness in YOU.
Love this book!
Love this book!
Helpful Score: 2
An excellent book on a spiritual path to higher creativity. I found it very helpful.
Helpful Score: 1
Creativity is a spiritual act, a power we share with the gods. This tome is a good way to tap into and claim your creative powers.
Helpful Score: 1
great tool
Helpful Score: 1
This is a very helpful book for anyone who wants to become more creative. Except for the frustration of the author's new-agey language at times, I have found working through the creative exercises very encouraging and inspiring. I actually purchased a second copy for my son's finacee who is being pressured to be "practical" rather than pursue her dream of becoming a writer and artist. Highly recommended!
This is a great way to awaken the "artist" in each of us. It is best if read and done as a group of those whom you can feel comfortable with. There is a website that goes with this book and is a really good companion.
The study takes timw and the morning pages are really important, but worth the time involved.
The study takes timw and the morning pages are really important, but worth the time involved.
Great book, follow the same line as the Law of Attraction, the secret, the Alchemist, Think and Grow Rich etc...Self help authors believe the force is in you, to release their force inside is the quest of life.
As a born again Christian I like the book in the sense that we must think positively, my only concern is that positive thinkers tend to substitute the personal Creator for some unidentified force in the Universe that acted like god.
It is an interesting book , the bible says: "Read (examine) everything, keep the good" I Thess. 5:21. A lot of good gems in Cameron's book to think about.
As a born again Christian I like the book in the sense that we must think positively, my only concern is that positive thinkers tend to substitute the personal Creator for some unidentified force in the Universe that acted like god.
It is an interesting book , the bible says: "Read (examine) everything, keep the good" I Thess. 5:21. A lot of good gems in Cameron's book to think about.
The most helpful book around for artists and others as well.
wonderful book whose pages are filled with inspiring art tips and information.
Interesting 12 week program....I still can't write !
an excellent book on perception from your inner self. In other words have that banana split and feel good about yourself then create!!!
This book suites my analytical way of thinking very well.
I wasn't a fan. I'm sure other people could get a lot from this book, I just couldn't.
Reposting....guess it is just not my thing.
This is the book I discovered long ago and ended up returning to writing on a full time basis. Julia gets you going and keeps you going for weeks to come.
The Artist Way opens up the channels of creative expression by use of various Spiritual practices. At first I thought it was very heavy on Spiritual disciplines but as I looked further ahead (and I admit, I cheated and looked ahead) I saw that the emphasis is on the end Creativity and she tells us to "Think of discipline as a battery, useful but short-lived". Julia shows us how to use the "battery" to start the vehicle of Creativity rolling. The book is set up to be used over a 12 week period, one chapter per week. It has a guide in the back for "Creative Clusters" (groups where people support each other in this artistic awakening process. There is also a table of contents, an appendix called "Trail Mix", a reading list, and an Index. This is a wonderful book set up in a very usable manner.
I read only the first fifth of this book. I stopped because I lost interest in the book's subject.. ;-)
Had to have this for class, did not interest me.
