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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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An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.
Eric Maisel
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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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Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.
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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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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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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.
Eric Maisel
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An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.
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The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being.
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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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Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
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No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.
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Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of yourself.
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Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.
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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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Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself.
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All space is space in which to create.
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The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose, he often works more narrowly than he'd intended.
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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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Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.
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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?
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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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The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.
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