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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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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
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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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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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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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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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Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
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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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The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.
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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 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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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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As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again, by her own amazed, ringing laughter.
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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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Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
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While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.
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Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.
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Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.
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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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The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.
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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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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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