Eric Maisel Quotes
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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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Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?
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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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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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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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Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.
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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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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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Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
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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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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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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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A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.
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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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Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.
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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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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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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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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's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.
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Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.
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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.