Quote

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

Eric Maisel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
Author
Playwright
Psychologist
Teacher
The Bronx
New York City
Dream
Work
Make
Artists
Community
Artist
Reality

More quotes by Eric Maisel

Image
All space is space in which to create.
Eric Maisel
Image
The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.
Eric Maisel
Image
An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.
Eric Maisel
Image
Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of yourself.
Eric Maisel
Image
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
Eric Maisel
Image
Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
Eric Maisel
Image
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.
Eric Maisel
Image
The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important.
Eric Maisel
Image
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.
Eric Maisel
Image
Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
Eric Maisel
Image
Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.
Eric Maisel
Image
Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
Eric Maisel
Image
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.
Eric Maisel
Image
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.
Eric Maisel
Image
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.
Eric Maisel
Image
An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.
Eric Maisel
Image
Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
Eric Maisel
Image
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.
Eric Maisel
Image
Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.
Eric Maisel
Image
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.
Eric Maisel