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Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.

Eric Maisel

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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
Author
Playwright
Psychologist
Teacher
The Bronx
New York City
Humanity
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Eternity
Creativity
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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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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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Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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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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Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.
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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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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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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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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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Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.
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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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The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.
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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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Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself.
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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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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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