Skip to content

Creative Quotes by Julia Cameron

37 Creative quotes by Julia Cameron

All Creative quotes Julia Cameron’s page

Julia Cameron says each of us carries a creative spark, a candle meant to light our own path and that of others. She describes enthusiasm as a spiritual commitment and says the creative process works best when we surrender control. She also reminds artists to replenish their inner resources, treating creativity like a garden that needs regular watering.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

Image

Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

Image

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.

Image

Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.

Image

You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.

Image

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

Image

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

Image

When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.

Image

We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.

Image

The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting…

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…

Image

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether…

Image

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw…

Image

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Image

In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is…

Image

All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

Image

Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm - from the…

Image

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the…

Image

All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The…

Image

As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in…

Image

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether…

Image

While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of…

Image

We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us.…

Image

There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer…

Image

One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by. Ideally, we would be…

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…

Image

The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to…

Image

In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked…

Image

An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our…

Image

The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I…

Image

It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.

Image

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

Image

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

Image

As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.

Image

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in…

Image

So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by…

Image

I grew up in what you might call a relentlessly creative household. We were given art supplies, music supplies... Our mother knew…

Image

Other authors on Creative

More by Julia Cameron

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude…

We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes…

All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of…

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.

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…

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing…

I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find…

All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.