Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing. Julia Cameron More Quotes by Julia Cameron More Quotes From Julia Cameron Workaholism is a block, not a building block. Julia Cameron building-blocks building block Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect. Julia Cameron inspiration exercise moving Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges. Julia Cameron successful self challenges Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny. Julia Cameron destiny grace moving A working artist is a playing artist. Julia Cameron artist When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious. Julia Cameron fluid conscious writing It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline. Julia Cameron pain adventure art 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 love-of-money games doors As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time. Julia Cameron tempo holiday disruption Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good. Julia Cameron misperception adversity I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art. Julia Cameron i-am-what-i-am injury art And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that. Julia Cameron house writing thinking It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline. Julia Cameron negativity simple believe To write is to right things. A path will emerge. Julia Cameron right-thing path writing Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it. Julia Cameron guessing artist facts You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul. Julia Cameron clock-is-ticking soul mind It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf. Julia Cameron careers artist waiting If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express. Julia Cameron mind want writing Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal. Julia Cameron lines color ideas Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls. Julia Cameron soul people art
