Julia Cameron Quotes

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them - to re-stock the trout pond, so to speak.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

Art is a self-replicating force.

Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive.

Depression is the flip side of creative inspiration but it can be useful. It's telling you to stop for a little bit. You can become so fully absorbed in the world of creative work that it can lead to some imbalance in your life.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

I try to make everything creative because it's stimulating. There is this great Stanley Kubrick quote somewhere about how life is sort of bad and how creating is important because it lets a little light in.

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

Panic is an incredibly catalyzing creative force. And almost out of sheer necessity, I found I had to talk about myself and my real life as it is effectively lived by me.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.

You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish.

I honor health as the first Muse.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

Enthusiasm is when the universe creates through you. You are involved in a creative act. You are bringing something new into this world. When that energy comes in, you feel an intense aliveness that flows into what you do. That is enthusiasm.

I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life of believers, originate the most intense motives for the most significant creative performance, not only in the field of arts and sciences but also in politics.

When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.

The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.