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
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
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
In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking. — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate— it is life, intensified, brilliant life. ALAIN ARIAS-MISSON” — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
