Julia Cameron Quotes

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.

I get angry when people bring derisory actions against me.

I can't stand when people say, 'Don't hate me because I'm beautiful'. OK, how about I hate you because you said that.

I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.

Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Many times I only say yes or no and even that winds them up for twenty minutes more.

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations.

You can be watching the greatest film in the world, and if you hear your neighbor getting into a fight, you're at the window.

I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy.

There are times ... when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space hogger, an oxygen taker, a chaos maker, a conflict inducer, a mood chaser, and a total drag.

This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.

Poor health is not caused by something you don't have; it's caused by disturbing something that you already have. Health is not something you need to get, it's something you have already if you don't disturb it.

A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.

In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.