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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
Author
Playwright
Psychologist
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The Bronx
New York City
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Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.
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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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The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
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The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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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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Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
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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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