Eric Maisel Quotes
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Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
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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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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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Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.
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Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.