Quotes by Julia Cameron

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

— Julia Cameron

Wisdom

Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you don't necessarily think of it spiritual guidance.

— Julia Cameron

Life

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

— Julia Cameron

Wisdom

I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.

— Julia Cameron

Friendship

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

— Julia Cameron

Wisdom

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

— Julia Cameron

Wisdom

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

— Julia Cameron

Education

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

— Julia Cameron

Success

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

— Julia Cameron

Life

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.

— Julia Cameron

Wisdom

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

— Julia Cameron

Wisdom

Buy tabloids. Celebrity gossip is engrossing. Celebrity cellulite can make you forget turbulence.

— Julia Cameron

Wisdom

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

— Julia Cameron

Wisdom

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

— Julia Cameron

Life

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

— Julia Cameron

Wisdom

When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.

— Julia Cameron

Wisdom

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.

— Julia Cameron

Wisdom

I always start everything with the weather, because the weather is the first thing that I notice when I wake up in the morning.

— Julia Cameron

Wisdom

It's important always to have a sense of wonder.

— Julia Cameron

Wisdom

I think writing is by its very nature transformational. I believe that the minute you put pen to page you start to alter your consciousness, and the more writing you do, the more closely connected you are to a higher power. Some people can call it the muse. Other people say it's God. Whatever you care to call it, when you write, you connect to it.

— Julia Cameron

Wisdom

I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.

— Julia Cameron

Wisdom

My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

— Julia Cameron

Wisdom

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

— Julia Cameron

Success

I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.'

— Julia Cameron

Education