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?

Eric Maisel

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• I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Think
  • You
  • Artist

• As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Artist
  • Responsible

• 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.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Help
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • Artist
  • Performance
  • Queen

• Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

  

  Sallust
  • Ambition
  • Blood
  • Gratitude

• 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.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Perception

• The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Society
  • Artist
  • Musicians

• My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Ambition
  • Enjoy Life

• It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Funny
  • Ambition
  • Directing

• When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • People
  • Artist
  • Idea

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • True
  • Poverty

• I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

  

  Kanye West
  • Artist
  • Generation
  • Shakespeare

• My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

  

  Anjelica Huston
  • Ambition
  • Bored

• 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.

  

  Louis XIV
  • Fall
  • Ambition

• Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Ambition
  • Drug

• 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.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Great
  • Live
  • Ambition

• 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.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Artist
  • Thing
  • Exciting

• I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that I'm not able to see them that much. I'll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Me
  • Inspired
  • Stories

• Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Up
  • Solutions
  • Four

• Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Germany
  • Misfortune
  • Poisoned

• When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Good
  • Recognition

• In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Political
  • Leadership
  • Presidential

• Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Artist
  • Ambition
  • Force