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"50 Julia Cameron Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 4 March 1948 | Teacher | Author | Artist | Poet | Playwright | Novelist |
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong
Life Creative Life Lose Fear
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The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

Creative Process Surrender Control
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Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

Progress Perfection Asking Ourselves
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Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

Creativity Faith Control
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Serious art is born from serious play.

Serious Art Born Play
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Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

Art Progress Cherished
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The reward for attention is always healing.

Reward Attention Healing
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We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.
Experience Life Faith
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I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

Believe Want Write
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Creativity - like human life itself - begins in the dark

Creativity Human Life Dark
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The myth that we must have “time”—more time—in order to create is a myth that keeps us from using the time we do have.

Myth Time Create
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It’s not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Answer Enlightens Question
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The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.

Trick Write Time Love
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Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.

Agendas Drain Life Relationships
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All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

Audacity Talent Artist Center stage
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Mystery Heart Creativity Surprise
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Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.
Anger Meant Acted upon
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As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

You Move toward Dream
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You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you.

Work Spiritual Fact God
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Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

Writing Breathing Learn Point
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No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

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

Art Thinking Opposite
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Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

Good Writing Clears Psyche
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We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.

Best Light See
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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

Judging Efforts Artist Abuse
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When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend

Feel Critical condition Treat Friend
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When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.

Walk Brains Converse
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We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

Idea Need Mood Write
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Always remember that your Censor’s negative opinions are not the truth.

Censor's Negative Opinion Truth
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Fame will come to some. Honor will visit all who work.

Fame Honor Visit Work
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There is the risk you cannot afford to take,and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

Risk Afford Take
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Leap, and the net will appear.

Leap Net Appear
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God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

God Handle Overestimate Underestmate
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The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

Voice Original Strangled People's
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Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.

Tenacity Talent Rules Day
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Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

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

Thinking God's Will Dream
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Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

Creativity Moment Timeless
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The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

Artist Produce Work Art
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Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention

Survival Sanity Delight Gift
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Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

Artist Visionaries Faith Creative goal
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The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

Heart Creativity Experience Union
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Festivity Breeds Creativity. Rigidity Breeds Despair

Festivity Creativity Rigidity Despair
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We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining.

Unexamined Life Worth Living
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Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead.

Creativity Activity Hate Obsess
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Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Recovery Priority Life
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Things Difficult Dare
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Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it

Believe Begin Action Power
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Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.

Writing Act Listening Ego
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I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Roses Table Diamonds Neck
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Julia Cameron Quotes & Sayings