Julia Cameron. (№ 382380)

Remember: to awaken the artist within, we must first prepare for the role of bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. Agreeing to be a bad artist, you have the chance to become an artist at all, and eventually, perhaps, very good. When I tell my students, I immediately stumble on hard protective reaction: "do you know how many years I will be, when will I learn to really play the piano, to write decent pictures and plays?" Know. Exactly the same as you, if you don't learn.