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Julia Cameron

Julia Cameron Quotes

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Julia Cameron

Birthname

Birthday: March 4, 1948

Birthplace: Libertyville, Illinois, United States

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Film Director, Novelist, Screenwriter, Poet

Spouse: Martin Scorsese

Total quotes: 2

“The secret truth is this: rarely do we feel more connected to a higher power than when we ask for help.”

— Julia Cameron, via twitter.com

Tagged: Asking For Help, Higher Power

“As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them — to restock the trout pond, so to speak. I call this process 'filling the well.'

Filling the well involves the active pursuit of images to refresh our artistic reservoirs. Art is born in attention. Its midwife is detail. Art may seem to spring from pain, but perhaps that is because pain serves to focus our attention onto details (for instance, the excruciatingly beautiful curve of a lost lover's neck). Art may seem to involve broad strokes, grand schemes, great plans. But it is the attention to detail that stays with us; the singular image is what haunts us and becomes art. Even in the midst of pain, this singular image brings delight. The artist who tells you different is lying.”

— Julia Cameron, The Artists Way

Tagged: Art, Creation, Memory, Nostalgia, Curves, Active pursuit, Filling The Well

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