Eric Maisel Quotes

Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.

Eric Maisel

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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

Ed Koch
- Up
- Important
- Worry
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Jackson Browne
- Alone
- Dance
- End
To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.

Iain McGilchrist
- Think
- Model
- Better
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Napoleon Bonaparte
- Change
- Years
- Wishes
I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.

Damon Albarn Gorillaz
- Work
- Music
- Me
A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

A. P. Martinich
- Good
- Philosophy
- Grammar