Julia Cameron Quotes about Creativity

I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.

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

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

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

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

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

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

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

Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.

The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance.

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.

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

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

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