Julia Cameron Quotes

There is a path for each of us. When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness. We know the next right action — Although not necessarily what is just around the bend.

The great acting coach Michael Chekhov advised his students, “If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.

as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, [and] there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. PETER DRUCKER

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

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. As we lose our vagueness about our self, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression. We become original because we become something specific: an origin from which work flows.

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

Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. SHAKTI GAWAIN Blocked

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

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

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.