Julia Cameron Quotes

born 1948 United States

Julia Cameron (born 4 March 1948) is an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist, most famous for her book The Artist's Way (1992).

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Also known as: Cameron, Julia

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Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

Blessings (1998)

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature.

Blessings (1998)

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

The Artist's Way (1992)

Art is an act of the soul, not of the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams — their visions, really — we are in the realm of the sacred.

Inspirations : Meditations from The Artist's Way (2001)

All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.

Creativity — like human life itself — begins in darkness.

The Artist's Way (1992)

The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

The Artist's Way (1992)

Life is a creative endeavor. It is active, not passive.

Blessings (1998)

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

Blessings (1998)

I honor my importance and the importance of others.

Blessings (1998)

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

The Artist's Way (1992)

The growth of one blesses all. I am committed to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.

Blessings (1998)

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

The Artist's Way (1992)

Believing in the goodness of each, I add to the goodness of all. We bless each other even in passing.

Blessings (1998)

All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

The Artist's Way (1992)

Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic — love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.

Blessings (1998)

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.

The Artist's Way (1992)

I act creatively and consciously to actively endorse and encourage the expansion of those whose lives I touch. Believing in the goodness of each, I add to the goodness of all. We bless each other even in passing.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

The Artist's Way (1992)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Julia Cameron (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.