Julia Cameron Quotes

To create something you must be something.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

There's a wealth of talent that lies in all of us. All of us, including those who work in schools, must nurture creativity systematically and not kill it unwittingly.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

I have found that nurturing our creative side feeds all aspects of one's life and those around us in a positive way.

You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before-colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter.

Everybody's got creativity. Dive within to the ocean of infinite creativity.

Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.

There’s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don’t wait for anybody to tell you it’s okay. Take that shimmer and show us our humanity. That’s your job.

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

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

Modeling isn't boring.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.