Julia Cameron
Julia Cameron
Julia B. Cameronis an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist. She is most famous for her book The Artist's Way. She also has written many other non-fiction works, short stories, and essays, as well as novels, plays, musicals, and screenplays...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 March 1948
CountryUnited States of America
Julia Cameron quotes about
creativity
Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.
creativity acceptance self
Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.
writing love-life creativity
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.
letting-go creativity creative
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
healing rewards attention
The reward for attention is always healing.
block flower creativity
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.
land promised-land new-frontiers
You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.
impact solitude routine
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.
healing might teens
Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.
talent tenacity
Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.
rain writing air
Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.
writing ideas needs
We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.
giving littles doe
God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.
love-is optimism pace
If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.