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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.
Eric Maisel
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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
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If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.
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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 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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Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself.
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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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While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.
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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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An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.
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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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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
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Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
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Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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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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