Eric Maisel Quotes
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It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.
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Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.
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Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.
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Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?
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If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.
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The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.
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An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.
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Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
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A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.
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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
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Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
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When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.
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By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.
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Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down.
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It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.
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Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.
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To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.
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Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.
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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation.
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Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.
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Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.
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Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?
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Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.