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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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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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Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.
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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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The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being.
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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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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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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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A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.
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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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