Eric Maisel Quotes
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Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?
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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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Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?
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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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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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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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Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.
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Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
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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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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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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 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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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
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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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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 a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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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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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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Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.
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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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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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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.