Eric Maisel Quotes
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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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Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
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Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
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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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To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity.
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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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When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.
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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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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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If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.
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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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An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.
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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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While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to carry long spoons and sup there.
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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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Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.
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Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.
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Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?
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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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Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.
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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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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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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.