The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations. — 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
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
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
Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges. — 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
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
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
Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express. — 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 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
We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration.… — 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
The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our… — 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
