Quote

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

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
Field
Fields
Imagination
Art
Play
Time

More quotes by Julia Cameron

Image
Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.
Julia Cameron
Image
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
Image
I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
Julia Cameron
Image
I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.
Julia Cameron
Image
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
Julia Cameron
Image
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
Image
Creativity is a spiritual issue.
Julia Cameron
Image
It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.
Julia Cameron
Image
And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.
Julia Cameron
Image
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
Julia Cameron
Image
In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.
Julia Cameron
Image
Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.
Julia Cameron
Image
The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.
Julia Cameron
Image
I am due at the page.
Julia Cameron
Image
We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.
Julia Cameron
Image
You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul.
Julia Cameron
Image
when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.
Julia Cameron
Image
The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.
Julia Cameron
Image
Making art is an act of faith.
Julia Cameron
Image
We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.
Julia Cameron