Julia Cameron Thinking Quotations

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.The Artist's Way

What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

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.

When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a journalist.’ And, uh, turned out we were both right.

We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

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.

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

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.

Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength