Julia Cameron est cinéaste américaine.
“Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.”
Julia Cameron livre The Artist's Way
The Artist's Way (1992)
Contexte: 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. <!-- p. 195
“Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.”
Julia Cameron livre The Artist's Way
Variante: Creativity — like human life itself — begins in darkness.
Source: The Artist's Way (1992)
Contexte: Creativity — like human life itself — begins in darkness. We need to acknowledge this. All too often, we think only in terms of light: "And then the lightbulb went on and I got it!" It is true that insights may come to us as flashes. It is true that some of these flashes may be blinding. It is, however, also true that such bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.
Julia Cameron livre The Artist's Way
Source: The Artist's Way
“Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)”
Source: God is No Laughing Matter
“Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.”
Julia Cameron livre The Artist's Way
Source: The Artist's Way
“Art? You just do it. MARTIN RITT”
Julia Cameron livre The Artist's Way
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Julia Cameron livre The Right to Write
Source: The Right to Write (1998)
Julia Cameron livre The Artist's Way
To the perfectionist, there is always room for improvement. The perfectionist call this humility. In reality, it is egotism. It is pride that makes us want to write a perfect script, paint a perfect painting, perform a perfect audition monologue.
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough — that we should try again. No. We should not.
In Inspirations : Meditations from The Artist's Way (2001), Cameron extends the above statement with further remarks: Focused on process, our creative life retains a sense of adventure. Focused on product, the same creative life can feel foolish or barren. We inherit the obsession with product and the idea that art produces finished product from our consumer-oriented society. This focus creates a great deal of creative block.
The Artist's Way (1992)
Inspirations : Meditations from The Artist's Way (2001), "Invocation"
