Julia Cameron Quotes

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature of his creative gifts, cannot divorce the two. To create is to love. To love is to create.

Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.

I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.

Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

God is the source of all creativity. You can be creative only when you are EN RAPPORT with God.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

Creativity has nothing to do with creating something, creativity is simply the presence of God.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

I feel blessed. To live an artistic life, it's a blessing.

When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that.