"If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia and we do know what to do about it--pray about it, talk about it, feel the fear, a..."
- Julia Cameron
"Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that."
"Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down."
"Serious art is born from serious play."
"The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all."
"Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than..."
"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."
"Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down."
"I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the tree will accommodate it's loss, still growing and still beautiful. It is m..."
"Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness."