Julia Cameron Quotes

Sometimes people, their creative drive comes from an energy to try to heal themselves.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

I think of myself as a healing artist.

My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

Words don't heal. Art heals!

I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.

In 'Art as Therapy', we argue that art is a tool that can variously help to inspire, console, redeem, guide, comfort, expand and reawaken us.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.

Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

I'm inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going through in my life. If you're going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, it's a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.

It's always cathartic for me to write music.

You exorcise the things that haunt you. That's one good thing about any artistic discipline.

Art became my therapy. It's an amazing outlet.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.