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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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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
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To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.
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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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Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.
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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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Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
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Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
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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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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.
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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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Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.
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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, 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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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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The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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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.
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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
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Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
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To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity.
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An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
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