Julia Cameron Creativity Quotations

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

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

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

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

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

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

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.

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.

Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body

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.

Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.

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

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.

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.

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

Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

You will learn to enjoy the process... and to surrender your need to control the result. You will discover the joy of practising your creativity. The process, not the product, will become your focus.

In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

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.

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

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

When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfil our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach.

When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.

The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to our creativity, we are opening to God: good, orderly direction. As we pursue our creative fulfillment, all elements of our life move toward harmony. As we strengthen our creativity, we strengthen our connection to the Creator within. Artists love other artists. Our relationship to God is co-creative, artist to artist. It is God's will for us to live in creative abundance.

The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.

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.

All too often 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.Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.

Creativity is a spiritual issue.

If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your creativity changes you from something bobbing in that sea to a more fully functioning, more conscious, more cooperative part of that ecosystem.

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

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.

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