Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us… — 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
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
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
We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible. — 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
Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets… — 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
