We are all artists—whether we realise it or not, whether we like it or not—and we are all on an “artist’s journey.”
The artist’s life is defined by the works he or she produces. The artist has no choice in this. A calling from birth impels him. You have that same calling. Your life is unfolding according to the template of a “hero’s journey” that is unique to you. You can’t escape it. You can’t run away from it.
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do the work In his book “The War of Art”, my teacher Steven Pressfield — I refer to him as my teacher because I am learning from him, and therefore he is