Julia Cameron Quotes

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Creativity is always from the beyond.

Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.

So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I believe in creative work.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

Is there a spiritual element to creativity? Hell, yes. Our mightiest ally (our indispensable ally) is belief in something we cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or feel.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.

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.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

I was just infused with ideas and I would dream about it and wake up and go, "Oh, I have another idea about Walter White." It was so well written. And it just got into my soul.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.