Eric Maisel Quotes
Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
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When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
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My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
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I'd want to direct a video for Yoko Ono. As long as I got to work with Yoko Ono someday, I'd be really happy. I just think she's such a great artist - it would just be so nice.
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My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
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The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.
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Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
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It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.
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It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?
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If you can't solve it, it's not a problem - it's reality.
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When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.
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Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
