Julia Cameron Quotes

• I believe that what we want to write wants to be written.

  Julia Cameron

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inspiration

• Art is born in attention.

  Julia Cameron

  Topics in Art

• The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

  Julia Cameron

  Topics in Art

• The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

  Julia Cameron

  Topics in Art

• Serious art is born from serious play.

  Julia Cameron

  Topics in Art
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  Writing is like breathing, it’s possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

  Julia Cameron

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  Tags in Writing, Breathing

• You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you.

  Julia Cameron

  Topics in God, Spirituality

• Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

  Julia Cameron

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Us, Admitting, Dreams, Unfold, Will, Courage, Faith

• Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

  Julia Cameron

  Topics in Creation

  Tags in Creative

• Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us.

  Julia Cameron

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  Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

  Julia Cameron

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart, Surprise, Mystery, Creativity

• Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness.

  Julia Cameron

  Topics in Life, Spirituality

  Tags in Writing, Creativity, Darkness

• Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

  Julia Cameron

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Harder, Ideas, Dies

• The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

  Julia Cameron

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  Tags in Process, Control

• Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite – getting something down.

  Julia Cameron

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Opposite, Thinking

• Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

  Julia Cameron

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Erratic, Growth

• What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

  Julia Cameron

  Topics in Money, Work

• Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough – that we should try again.

  Julia Cameron

  Tags in Pursuit, Perfectionism

• Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

  Julia Cameron

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Connected

• I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

  Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron (20)

Birth:	4th March, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Filmmaker, Journalist, Playwright, Teacher

About

Julia B. Cameron is an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist. She is most famous for her book The Artist's Way. She also has written many other non-fiction works, short stories, and essays, as well as novels, plays, musicals, and screenplays.

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Births

• 1952 - Lorna Luft
• 1965 - Reggie Lewis
• 1958 - Rickson Gracie
• 1937 - Marlo Thomas
• 1963 - Nicollette Sheridan

Deaths

• 1958 - Mel Ott
• 1959 - Max Baer
• 1999 - Quentin Crisp
• 2000 - Sir Cyril Astley Clarke
• 1969 - Norman Lindsay