Top 400 Julia Cameron Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.”

— Julia Cameron

52. “By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.”

— Julia Cameron

53. “To write is to right things. A path will emerge.”

— Julia Cameron

54. “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. MARTHA GRAHAM.”

— Julia Cameron

55. “Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.”

— Julia Cameron

56. “I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.”

— Julia Cameron

57. “I bless the wisdom of my loving heart. Love is a form of listening. I listen with a loving heart. I listen to the love within my heart and I hear the love in the hearts of others.”

— Julia Cameron

58. “We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.”

— Julia Cameron

59. “We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.”

— Julia Cameron

60. “To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”

— Julia Cameron

61. “The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”

— Julia Cameron

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

— Julia Cameron

63. “Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.”

— Julia Cameron

64. “Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you’ve got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for; you might just get it?”

— Julia Cameron

65. “I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.”

— Julia Cameron

66. “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.”

— Julia Cameron

67. “All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.”

— Julia Cameron

68. “Chief among these changes will be the triggering of synchronicity: we change and the universe furthers and expands that change. I have an irreverent shorthand for this that I keep taped to my writing desk: “Leap, and the net will appear.”

— Julia Cameron

69. “As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.”

— Julia Cameron

70. “Writing is like breathing, it’s possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.”

— Julia Cameron

71. “Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he’ll bring his friends.”

— Julia Cameron

72. “Mulling on the page is an artless art form. It is fooling around. It is doodling. It is the way that ideas slowly take shape and form until they are ready to help us see the light. All too often, we try to push, pull, outline, and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.”

— Julia Cameron

73. “Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.”

— Julia Cameron

74. “Most of the time when we are blocked in an area of our life, it is because we feel safer that way. We may not be happy, but at least we know what we are – unhappy. Much fear of our own creativity is the fear of the unknown.”

— Julia Cameron

75. “Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop – an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.”

— Julia Cameron

76. “Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.”

— Julia Cameron

77. “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.”

— Julia Cameron

78. “The beginner’s humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.”

— Julia Cameron

79. “Expect the universe to support your dream. It will.”

— Julia Cameron

80. “There is no emergency. My divine timing is perfect and serves you well. Trust my sense of right action. Your successful unfolding is my great joy.”

— Julia Cameron

81. “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. If we are forever yearning for “more,” we are forever discounting what is offered.”

— Julia Cameron

82. “Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite – getting something down.”

— Julia Cameron

83. “I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.”

— Julia Cameron

84. “Creativity lives in paradox: serious art is born from serious play.”

— Julia Cameron

85. “Most of us are really willing only to write well, and this is why the act of writing strains us.”

— Julia Cameron

86. “Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done.”

— Julia Cameron

87. “No matter is too complex for the healing impact of divine mind. Divine mind arranges everything to its highest order. What lies within you knows how to act and when to act. Tuned to divine mind, you have an unshakable inner clarity that makes proper and appropriate choices. Your good is assured.”

— Julia Cameron

88. “One of the reasons many of us avoid meditation is that we think of it as work – and work we may not do perfectly. What if we didn’t have to do it perfectly? What if we didn’t have to “do” it at all? What if we could rest – and let God do the rest?”

— Julia Cameron

89. “We want to set aside time for our creative work, but we feel we should do something else instead. As blocked creatives, we focus not on our responsibilities to ourselves, but on our responsibilities to others. We tend to think such behavior makes us good people. It doesn’t. It makes us frustrated people.”

— Julia Cameron

90. “We must actively, consciously, consistently, and creatively nurture our artist selves.”

— Julia Cameron

91. “When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.”

— Julia Cameron

92. “Great Creator, I will take care of the quantity. You take care of the quality.”

— Julia Cameron

93. “Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called ’the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.”

— Julia Cameron

94. “The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate – it is life, intensified, brilliant life. ALAIN ARIAS-MISSON.”

— Julia Cameron

95. “Today, I accept divine timing. I allow the pacing of the Universe to be my own. I align myself with the tempo of my life precisely as it is unfolding.”

— Julia Cameron

96. “You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.”

— Julia Cameron

97. “Money cannot fill an empty soul.”

— Julia Cameron

98. “The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.”

— Julia Cameron

99. “You are on the look out for experience, strength, and hope. You want to hear from the horse’s mouth exactly how disappointments have been survived. It helps to know that the greats have had hard times too and that your own hard times merely make you part of the club.”

— Julia Cameron

100. “Non illegitimi te carborundum, the graffiti in prisoner-of-war camps is said to have run. The rough translation, very important for artists, is “Don’t let the bastards get you down.” Artists who take this to heart survive and often prevail. The key here is action. Pain that is not used profitably quickly solidifies into a leaden heart, which makes any action difficult.”

— Julia Cameron