An artist is an artist before they have ever produced a single thing. The production of something is not what makes a body an artist. It is the soul … - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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An artist is an artist before they have ever produced a single thing. The production of something is not what makes a body an artist. It is the soul that makes an artist, the core of the psyche that fills the person, the creative fire inside a person that make them an artist. And if that person has the soul of an artist, that is they have the burning as each and every individual does, then they are an artist, they are entitled to the title artist, we are all entitled to the title artist before we have produced one single thing

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About Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Clarissa Pinkola Estés (born January 27, 1945) is a first-generation American writer and Jungian psychoanalyst. She is the author of Women Who Run with the Wolves (1992), which remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 145 weeks and has sold over two million copies.

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إننا جميعاً نفيض شوقاً وحنيناً إلى الحياة الوحشية. بيد أن ترياق الحضارة لا يترك لهذا الحنين منفذاً, إلا في أقل القليل. تعلمنا أن نشعر بالخجل من مثل هذه الرغبة، تركنا شعرنا يسترسل ووارينا به مشاعرنا. غير أن ظل المرأة الوحشية مازال ينسل خلفنا ويكمن في أيامنا وليالينا. وبصرف النظر عمن نكون’ فإن الظل الذي يهرول خلفنا, هو في النهاية يمشي على أربع.

The difference between comfort and nurture is this: if you have a plant that is sick because you keep it in a dark closet, and you say soothing words to it, that is comfort.If you take out of the closet and put in the sun, give it something to drink, and then talk to it, that is nurture

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