Julia Cameron
Julia Cameron
Julia B. Cameronis an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist. She is most famous for her book The Artist's Way. She also has written many other non-fiction works, short stories, and essays, as well as novels, plays, musicals, and screenplays...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 March 1948
CountryUnited States of America
growth tears our-future
Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth.
writing should
We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.
believe creativity reality
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.
powerful creative gentle
As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.
art self creative
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.
procrastination names forgiving
Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.
change choices
All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.
writing play piano
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.
forever more-time yearning
If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.
life beautiful art
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
dream inspiration matter
Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.
confused heart thinking
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.
art healing air
Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.
wise art essence
At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.