Julia Cameron Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Healing, Air

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Oct 20, 2013

• When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, "Wait. Not now." Sometimes the step is, "Work on something else for a while." When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways--but it will come.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Art, Divine Guidance

• 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. . . Fear is what blocks an artist. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of not finishing. The fear of failure and of success. The fear of beginning at all.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Block, Finishing

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

  Julia Cameron

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jun 13, 2012

• No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

  Julia Cameron

  Dream, Art, Selfish

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.10, Souvenir Press

• Serious art is born from serious play.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Play, Serious

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.151, Penguin

• 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

  Art, Work, Needs

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.192, Penguin

• It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Pain, Adventure

• Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Progress, Taught

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.90, Penguin

• Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.

  Julia Cameron

  Dream, Art, People

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.261, Souvenir Press

• As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Lying, Self

  Julia Cameron (2001). “Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way”, p.31, Penguin

• As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Self, Creative

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.40, Souvenir Press

• Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Creativity

  Julia Cameron (2016). “It's Never Too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond”, p.14, Penguin

• In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

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  Art, Creativity, Creative

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.15, Souvenir Press

• Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Play, Imagination

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.44, Souvenir Press

• Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Retirement, Careers

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jun 30, 2012

• As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all. When we deal with one another, we are dealing not merely with our own human personalities but also with the unseen but ever-present throng of ideas, visions, stories, poems, songs, sculptures, art-as-facts that crowd the temple of consciousness waiting their turn to be born.

  Julia Cameron

  Song, Art, Moving

• The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to our creativity, we are opening to God: good, orderly direction. As we pursue our creative fulfillment, all elements of our life move toward harmony. As we strengthen our creativity, we strengthen our connection to the Creator within. Artists love other artists. Our relationship to God is co-creative, artist to artist. It is God's will for us to live in creative abundance.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Moving, Creativity

• At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

  Julia Cameron

  Wise, Art, Essence

• Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

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  Spiritual, Art, Apology

  Julia Cameron (2001). “God is No Laughing Matter”, p.158, Penguin

• As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Pregnancy, Secret

• Art is born in attention.

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  Art, Attention, Born

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.40, Souvenir Press

• We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Way, Originality

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.218, Penguin

• An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Lying, Healing

• Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Art, Practice

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Apr 30, 2015

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