Top 400 Julia Cameron Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate – it is life, intensified, brilliant life. ALAIN ARIAS-MISSON.”

— Julia Cameron

102. “Money cannot fill an empty soul.”

— Julia Cameron

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

— Julia Cameron

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

— Julia Cameron

105. “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

106. “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

107. “Today, I embrace the beginning of a better life. I release my grip on the past and open my hand to receive the new. I accept the seeds of the future.”

— Julia Cameron

108. “Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.”

— Julia Cameron

109. “It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.”

— Julia Cameron

110. “The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.”

— Julia Cameron

111. “Love is the greatest medicine. I ask to be healing medicine for others. I ask my heart to expand its boundaries and to love others as they wish to be loved. I ask my heart to expand its boundaries and open to my being loved as I wish to be loved.”

— Julia Cameron

112. “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.”

— Julia Cameron

113. “Our internal artist is always our creative child.”

— Julia Cameron

114. “There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures.”

— Julia Cameron

115. “Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.”

— Julia Cameron

116. “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.”

— Julia Cameron

117. “We are not, as we had told ourselves, the victim of circumstances. We played an active part in our own undoing.”

— Julia Cameron

118. “Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.”

— Julia Cameron

119. “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.”

— Julia Cameron

120. “In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do – spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.”

— Julia Cameron

121. “Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.”

— Julia Cameron

122. “Creativity is not and never has been sensible.”

— Julia Cameron

123. “We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.”

— Julia Cameron

124. “Grab for time to write instead of wait for time.”

— Julia Cameron

125. “Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.”

— Julia Cameron

126. “Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.”

— Julia Cameron

127. “We don’t often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.”

— Julia Cameron

128. “It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.”

— Julia Cameron

129. “The “if I had time” lie is a convenient way to ignore the fact that novels require being written and that writing happens a sentence at a time. Sentences can happen in a moment. Enough stolen moments, enough stolen sentences, and a novel is born – without the luxury of time.”

— Julia Cameron

130. “The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.”

— Julia Cameron

131. “The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. SHAKTI GAWAIN.”

— Julia Cameron

132. “Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body.”

— Julia Cameron

133. “When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.”

— Julia Cameron

134. “We cannot control the reception of our work. We must find our dignity in the doing.”

— Julia Cameron

135. “Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.”

— Julia Cameron

136. “Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.”

— Julia Cameron

137. “When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.”

— Julia Cameron

138. “I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day. BRENDA UELAND.”

— Julia Cameron

139. “Optimism is a practiced choice.”

— Julia Cameron

140. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. – MOTHER TERESA.”

— Julia Cameron

141. “As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.”

— Julia Cameron

142. “Soul is not about function; it’s about beauty, form, and memory.”

— Julia Cameron

143. “Leap, and the net appears.”

— Julia Cameron

144. “Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality...”

— Julia Cameron

145. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. PABLO PICASSO.”

— Julia Cameron

146. “What payoff are you getting for remaining stuck at this point in your expansion?”

— Julia Cameron

147. “We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.”

— Julia Cameron

148. “Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.”

— Julia Cameron

149. “The success of Morning Pages hinges on our doing them as close to awakening as we can.”

— Julia Cameron

150. “In me, find your refreshment. In me, find your ease. Rest in me and refresh yourself. Let your fatigue slip away. My resources are yours now. You are plentifully supplied.”

— Julia Cameron