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It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.
Eric Maisel
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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
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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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Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
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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, 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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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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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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Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.
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Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.
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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.
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While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.
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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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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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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
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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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The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
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