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Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.

Eric Maisel

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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
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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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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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An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
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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 middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
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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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The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
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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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When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to behave differently. You are not just changing your breathing pattern, you are making a full-body announcement that you are entering into a different relationship with your mind and your body.
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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.
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
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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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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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Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
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The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.
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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 must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.
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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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