Eric Maisel Quotes
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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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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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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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Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
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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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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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Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.
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The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being.
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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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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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Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.
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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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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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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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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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Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.
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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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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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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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A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.
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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.
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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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I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.