Miranda July Quotes

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

Art is the highest form of hope.

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.

Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

There’s no preparation for poetry.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives...most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity...when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Art is man's refuge from adversity.

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

There’s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don’t wait for anybody to tell you it’s okay. Take that shimmer and show us our humanity. That’s your job.

Just trying to live our lives and figuring out how to turn that into art. It's tough to say that the art was premeditated. Instead you just focused on living. 'How do I want to live? What do I want to do?' Then you figured out how to make that into art.

I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.