Julia Cameron Quotes

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

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.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

I think it's better to have ideas.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea.

I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.