Julia Cameron citations

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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.

Source: The Artist's Way

Source: God is No Laughing Matter

Source: The Artist's Way

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Source: The Right to Write (1998)

Blessings (1998)

The Artist's Way (1992)

The Artist's Way (1992)

The Artist's Way (1992)

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"