Julia Cameron Quotes - Page 6

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.

Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

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

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.

The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.

Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.

When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that

Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.

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

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.

we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.

Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

It hurts like hell when the world won't invest in you. But it's excruciating, almost more than you can bear, when you don't believe and invest in yourself.