Eric Maisel Quotes
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Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
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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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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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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 is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.
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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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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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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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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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Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
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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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All space is space in which to create.
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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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To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.
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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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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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Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
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Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?
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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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The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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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.