Eric Maisel Quotes
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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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When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to behave differently. You are not just changing your breathing pattern, you are making a full-body announcement that you are entering into a different relationship with your mind and your body.
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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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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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Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
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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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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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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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Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.
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Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.
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Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we feel as if we have merged with the universe; for the duration of that experience we feel immortal.
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I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.
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Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.
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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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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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Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes.
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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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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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The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.
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One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often.
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A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.
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Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.