Eric Maisel Quotes
The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
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I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
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The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.
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The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
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The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.
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Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.
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I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
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I don't eat for pleasure; I eat for performance.
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The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
