Eric Maisel Quotes
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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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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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It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.
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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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An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.
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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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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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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
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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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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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Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?
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Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.
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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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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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There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.
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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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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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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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Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.