Eric Maisel Quotes
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A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.
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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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It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.
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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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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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Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.
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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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Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
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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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Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.
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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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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
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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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Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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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 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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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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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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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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It goes against an artist's grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age... What work will get done in the remaining time? ...Can he find a little peace in this twilight? Or must he still rush on, restlessly and hungrily, to the very end?
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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
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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.