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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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Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?
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A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.
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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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If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.
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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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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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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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Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.
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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 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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Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
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Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.
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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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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 must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.
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Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.
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An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.
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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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