Julia Cameron Quotes

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

At moments we are all artists.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.

It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’­—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply.

Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.