Julia Cameron Quotes

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

The whole point of creativity is that it has no boundaries of language, region, and age.

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator

God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating.

It is not difficult for one seal to make many impressions exactly alike, but to vary shapes almost infinitely, which is what God has done in creation, this is in truth a divine work.

When God made man she was practicing.

There is a crack in everything God has made

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you.

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.

One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring clean... It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked useful but had seemed wrong, ideas he'd mislaid and forgotten... There was even a tiny lump of sun. He scratched his head. What could be done with all this rubbish?

Creation begins with vision.

Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.

We live in a world of creative beauty - the grand architect of the universe. God has planted something for us - a playground to play in if we choose to look at it that way and understand it. So, this time for me, is really a time to create.

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.

Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to meet him will be to become a creator in some measure.