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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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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.
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The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.
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The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being.
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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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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... 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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A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.
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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
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Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.
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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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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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While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.
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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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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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The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
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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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