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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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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The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.
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Not even close, ... Once I can transfer my weight to my front leg and just do it with a lot of force, and I don't even think about it, the home runs will come.
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
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Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.
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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?
