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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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Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.
Eric Maisel
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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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Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do.
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A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.
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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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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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Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.
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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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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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Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.
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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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A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.
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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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Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.
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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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Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
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Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
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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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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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Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
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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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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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