Julia Cameron Quotes

If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part of our being, then after a burst of creativity, we need to replenish our souls.

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don't tap into.

You're best off when you're part of the centre of the creative universe.

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.

My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

The best work flows from us effortlessly. Allow the gifts of spirit to come to you.

It's inspiring just to work on something and just kind of keep the creative juices flowing.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful - it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture.

The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you.

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique. The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know - apart from the more obvious sensual ones - is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols. Making an idea into an emotion.

Tapping into the essence of originating Spirit, emulating the attributes of the creative force of intention, and manifesting into your life anything that you desire that's consistent with the universal mind.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.

Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.