589 Quotes by Julia Cameron

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

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.

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

Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move forward. It is a loop-an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.

A God Jar is anything you wish it to be, in which you can put your wishes, dreams, problems, prayers. You may want to think of it as a spiritual mailbox.

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.