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Eric Maisel Inspirational Quotes (65)

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A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.
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Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.
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Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself.
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If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.
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If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.
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It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of narcissism, but in her role as her own dear friend and advocate.
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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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Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
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A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.
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By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.
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An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.
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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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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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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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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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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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While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.
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Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
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Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
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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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The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.
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The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.
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Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
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To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity.
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