Quote

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

Julia Cameron

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Reality
Imagined
Truth
Frequently
Wells
Focused
Well
Fantasy
Believe
Creativity
Life
Particular
Specifically
People
Creative
Observed
Difficult
Grounded

More quotes by Julia Cameron

Image
Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you think mystery, not mastery.
Julia Cameron
Image
Making art is an act of faith.
Julia Cameron
Image
A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.
Julia Cameron
Image
If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.
Julia Cameron
Image
When you are feeling too dull and too domesticated get on a horse, sit tall in the saddle, and for a moment live in a world that feels like risk and adventure.
Julia Cameron
Image
Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
Julia Cameron
Image
At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.
Julia Cameron
Image
Leap, and the net appears.
Julia Cameron
Image
In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.
Julia Cameron
Image
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one
Julia Cameron
Image
Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.
Julia Cameron
Image
Artists love other artists. Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright. Very often audacity, not talent, makes one person an artist and another a shadow artist-hiding in the shadows, afraid to step out and expose the dream to the light, fearful that it will disintegrate to the touch.
Julia Cameron
Image
Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
Julia Cameron
Image
It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.
Julia Cameron
Image
... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
Julia Cameron
Image
I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.
Julia Cameron
Image
Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.
Julia Cameron
Image
It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.
Julia Cameron
Image
In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
Julia Cameron
Image
My heart holds the world in tender awe.
Julia Cameron