Top 400 Julia Cameron Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.”

— Julia Cameron

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2. “Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.”

— Julia Cameron

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3. “Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.”

— Julia Cameron

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4. “Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.”

— Julia Cameron

5. “Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.”

— Julia Cameron

6. “Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.”

— Julia Cameron

7. “Water seeks its own level and water rises collectively.”

— Julia Cameron

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8. “What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?”

— Julia Cameron

9. “The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance.”

— Julia Cameron

10. “If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.”

— Julia Cameron

11. “It’s impossible to get better and look good at the same time.”

— Julia Cameron

12. “Serious art is born from serious play.”

— Julia Cameron

13. “As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.”

— Julia Cameron

14. “Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.”

— Julia Cameron

15. “When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and ‘good, orderly direction’ to enter.”

— Julia Cameron

16. “Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm – from the Greek, filled with God – is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself.”

— Julia Cameron

17. “At it’s essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.”

— Julia Cameron

18. “All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.”

— Julia Cameron

19. “Accept the fact that you’re an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.”

— Julia Cameron

20. “The Artist’s Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.”

— Julia Cameron

21. “Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.”

— Julia Cameron

22. “Creativity is always a leap of faith. You’re faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.”

— Julia Cameron

23. “Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.”

— Julia Cameron

24. “Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.”

— Julia Cameron

25. “Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.”

— Julia Cameron

26. “When we stop playing God, God can play through us.”

— Julia Cameron

27. “We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.”

— Julia Cameron

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

— Julia Cameron

29. “We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.”

— Julia Cameron

30. “Your mood doesn’t really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you’re doing is just plain junk.”

— Julia Cameron

31. “Workaholism is a block, not a building block.”

— Julia Cameron

32. “Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn’t necessary in a long-term relationship. Just as the first caress can lead to a change of heart, the first sentence, however tentative and awkward, can lead to a desire to go just a little further.”

— Julia Cameron

33. “Did you write today? Then you’re a writer today.”

— Julia Cameron

34. “Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it.”

— Julia Cameron

35. “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.”

— Julia Cameron

36. “Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.”

— Julia Cameron

37. “There will be many times when we won’t look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.”

— Julia Cameron

38. “Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.”

— Julia Cameron

39. “Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your heart if you let it. It will fill your pages and help to fill your life.”

— Julia Cameron

40. “When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that.”

— Julia Cameron

41. “The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.”

— Julia Cameron

42. “In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.”

— Julia Cameron

43. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. SENECA.”

— Julia Cameron

44. “There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.”

— Julia Cameron

45. “Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.”

— Julia Cameron

46. “We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. Success occurs in clusters.”

— Julia Cameron

47. “By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.”

— Julia Cameron

48. “An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.”

— Julia Cameron

49. “Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.”

— Julia Cameron

50. “In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.”

— Julia Cameron