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Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.

Eric Maisel

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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
Author
Playwright
Psychologist
Teacher
The Bronx
New York City
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Artists
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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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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
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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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Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
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While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.
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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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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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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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It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.
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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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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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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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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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A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.
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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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One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often.
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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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A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.
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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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Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
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