589 Quotes by Julia Cameron

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.

If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your creativity changes you from something bobbing in that sea to a more fully functioning, more conscious, more cooperative part of that ecosystem.

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

You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.

Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.