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
What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist? — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I grew up in what you might call a relentlessly creative household. We were given art supplies, music supplies... Our mother knew… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm - from the… — 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
You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting… — 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
In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in… — 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
No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected. — 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
Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of… — 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