Eric Maisel Quotes
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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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Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
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Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.
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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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Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?
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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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When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.
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To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.
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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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Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
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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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Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
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Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent...Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes. gr we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes.
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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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All space is space in which to create.
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An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.
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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.
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The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.