Julia Cameron Quotes

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.

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

Art is my life and my life is art.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

Art is spiritual.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

Tracey Emin's 'Strangeland' made me see that everything I have to be creative is inside of myself.

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.