The Complete Artist's Way: Creativity As a Spiritual Practice Hardcover – 18 Oct. 2007

To use this book will take time but the rewards are potentially great. At week 4 of the first 12 week course I am enjoying it immensely and looking forward to discovering more delights during the next 8 weeks.

I absolutely love this book. It is a true companion.

lovely book, great condition. A beautiful purchase.

It's a wonderful help if you're struggling to fully reach your potential. Perfect for artists but I recommend it to all kinds of people who want to improve their life in general. Although it sometimes reads like a self-help book, it's easy to put those parts aside and focus on the sensible advice and exercises that keep you within a mind-set that definitely works to attract and develop change and opportunities.If you approach it with an open mind and commit to the activities you will feel great and become truly productive.

Recommended to me by Art Therapist, very enjoyable and insightful books. The Artist's Way, Walking in This World; and Finding Water. Books that are combined into one that is a treasured companion. Cameron allows the reader to comfortably explore themselves through arts and writing, at a pace that suits the reader. The text is intersperced with wonder quotations: ~"I'm not a teacher: only a traveller of whom you've asked the way." George Bernard Shaw."The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust.If you are exploring creativity through spiritual paths, buy this.

I already have 'the artist's way' in paperback and it is something I refer back to whenever I need creative inspiration and motivation to get back into my photography and dream of making money from it. I must admit though, I have never got very far with it, or with my dream... and its been 5 years since I got my photography degree now!Not that this book isn't great, albeit the very 'Americanised' sayings and cheesy references to 'God' all the time but she does say, you don't have to be religious and can change 'god' to what's meaningful to you and I'm writing in pencil my versions of what she says, so as to not wince when I read.I haven't read it all though... even after I committed to doing the course in 2004! It being a 12 week course that you do need to commit too! For me the problem task is: the 'morning pages' that you apparently have to write, every morning when you wake up and that contain three A4 ish pages of freeform writing/jibberish. I find I just can't do it on anything other than a forced 'sit down to concentrate' session (on a day off from my non-art related day job). I can't get up early enough and don't even have time to make breakfast, never mind write three A4 pages! I find the task really, really tiring to my hand and baring in mind I am dyslexic, so its hard to write fast anyway, (writing this review has taken 40mins already, and that's typing!) but it also must mean I am so 'blocked' its unbelievable!This collectors version also has the 2nd and 3rd book in the series and so I hope to have a flick through them at least! You never know by 2015 I may finish the courses!Finally my gripe, mentioned in the title and reason for 4 stars, is that while this edition is a beautiful hardback, with cloth spine and ribbon marker, a printed case with gold de-bossing and foil and nice crisp white sheets that are easier to read than the paperback, it also has these 'elegant rough-front pages' that I wasn't sure about but now I have it, it is like the long edge, facing pages have not been trimmed before it was bound and in case you don't know how books are made: books are made in sections of around 5-10 sheets of paper and folded in half before been bound; because of this you get a triangular effect at the bit you flick through (long edge) as the sheets in the middle are pushed out further than the ones on the outside, so it is normally trimmed straight; if you then put all these untrimmed sections together, you get a lot of very rough and not very aesthetically lined up pages that you can't flick through and that are bent and wavey like a stack of papers. Now, some may like this effect and find it novel but I don't think I do. My partner who works in reprographics thinks its very poor indeed and laughed! The only thing I can attribute the reason for this to, (if it isn't a fault in the binding process), is that it is to inspire us 'shadow artists' to stop procrastinating and trying to be perfect because hey... Julia Margaret Cameron has published a book and look...its not perfect ether!I'll try to add a photo to show what I mean.Buy it though if you are blocked creatively. It is good.Anyway... any comments would be appreciated from other owners?

The content of this book seems very inspiring. Unfortunately it looks as if it's been dropped before it was packaged and sent out to me. I'll have to glue the book before I read it or the spine will come away. It's obvious its damaged it could easily be spotted on opening, I'm very disappointed its arrived in this condition. The packaging it arrived in was secure and undamaged.