The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

Julia Cameron
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The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. What this means is that we want to be better than we are and therefore we can’t make good art. We only make bad art and therefore we don’t make any art at all.

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