Eric Maisel Quotes
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Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.
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By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.
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Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.
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Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.
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Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam?
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Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.
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The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.
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It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of narcissism, but in her role as her own dear friend and advocate.
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As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again, by her own amazed, ringing laughter.
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While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless isn't a terrific idea in terms of your overall happiness and health.
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The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.
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No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.
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A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.
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The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.
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I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.
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Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.
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We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.
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An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.
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You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert, a real pro at mindfulness and personal calming. You honor your writing space by affirming that you matter, that your writing life matters, and that your current writing project matters. You honor your writing space by entering it with this mantra: “I am ready to work.” You enter, grow quiet, and vanish into your writing.
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Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.
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The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys country, but San Francisco has that moody thing going on, those blues notes wrapped in moisture, an atmosphere that tempers California dreaming and makes life more real. The fog brings reality, but it is still a California reality, one spent outdoors the whole year round.
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The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.
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Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
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Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?