Julia Cameron Quotes

Creating means living.

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

Composing is my life blood.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Art and life are inseparable.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

I think we're very much in a mystery here in this life and that artists try to pierce the mystery with their art.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards - or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing, work-making activity of the human mind. By Poetry I mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general and more primary: that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self which is a kind of divination (as was realized in ancient times; the Latin vates was both a poet and a diviner). Poetry, in this sense, is the secret life of each and all of the arts.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'