Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The original 'Artist's Way' focused on the nurturing of the self. The 'Artist's Way for Parents' focuses both on nurturing the self… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Artists love other artists. Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright. Very often audacity, not… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really -… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Mulling on the page is an artless art form. It is fooling around. It is doodling. It is the way that ideas… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. The beginner’s humility and openness lead to exploration.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by. Ideally, we would be… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. This happens in any number of ways: beginning work is measured against the masterworks… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage. — Julia Cameron Copy Share
Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide. — Julia Cameron Copy Share
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows. — Julia Cameron Copy Share
Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. — Julia Cameron Copy Share
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. — Julia Cameron Copy Share
There's this mythology that parents are supposed to be parents 24/7 and are supposed to be completely fulfilled by their kids. That's not the… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
