Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Remember that even if you have made a truly rotten piece of art, it may be a necessary stepping-stone to your next… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate— it is life, intensified, brilliant life. ALAIN ARIAS-MISSON” — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Those who speak in spiritual terms routinely refer to God as creator but seldom see "creator" as the literal term for "artist".… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“real artists can survive the most hostile environments and yet find their true calling like homing pigeons. That’s hogwash. Many real artists… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“THE VIRTUE TRAP An artist must have downtime, time to do nothing. Defending our right to such time takes courage, conviction, and… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation. — 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
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art. — 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
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 Image
We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
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 Image
