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Eric Maisel Inspirational Quotes (65)

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Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
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Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
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Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.
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The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
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Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.
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Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.
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The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged to learn how her defences work, so that she can drop and raise her guard instantly.
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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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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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When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.
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Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.
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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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Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.
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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
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If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.
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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of yourself.
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