Eric Maisel Quotes
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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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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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Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?
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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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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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It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.
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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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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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Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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All space is space in which to create.
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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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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.
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Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
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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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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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An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.