Julia Cameron Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.”

“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.”

“Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.”

“Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.”

“Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.”

“Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.”

“In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others.”

“When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.”

“Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.”

“Buy tabloids. Celebrity gossip is engrossing. Celebrity cellulite can make you forget turbulence.”