589 Quotes by Julia Cameron

Art is born in attention.

One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by. Ideally, we would be nurtured and encourages first by our nuclear family and then by ever-widening circles of friends, teachers, well-wishers. As young artists, we need and want to be acknowledged for our attempts and efforts as well as for our achievements and triumphs. Unfortunately, many artists never receive this critical early encouragement. As a result, they may not know they are artists at all.

In my experience, divorce takes you out for about 10 years, but you hear people talk about it lightly. The same with depression. You only have to have one good breakdown before you realize you need help. It's pretty frightening.

Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.

What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.