Julia Cameron Quotes

I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and a profound mystery. A thought was not there, then it is. An image, a story, an idea about what it is to be human, did not exist, then it does. With every new poem, an emotion new to the heart, to the world, speaks itself into being.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.

When I'm at home creating music, I usually wind up laughing. It's always, like, funny - like, what the hell did I just write?

The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

A good artist has less time than ideas.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

You can't rush inspiration.

When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

You can't slot a time and a space and think 'ok now it's time to sit and compose.' It just doesn't work like that for me.

Many people say some of their best ideas come from dreams. Arguably the greatest Beatles song, 'Yesterday,' came to Paul McCartney in a dream.

I understand, as an artist as well as a producer, the need for there to be mystery and surprise.

I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as my eye takes in what is so produced, a point arrives where some idea crystallizes, and then a control and ordering begins to take place.

I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, 'It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea I have as I start.' I could just 'feel' how good it could be. but I decided that, for the present, I would create the best way I know how and accept the ambiguities.

A lot of my sketches came from thoughts, and I always just wanted to act them out.