Eric Maisel Quotes
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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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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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Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.
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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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The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.
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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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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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Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?
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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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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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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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Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.
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All space is space in which to create.
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Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
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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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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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Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.
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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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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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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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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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A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.