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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.

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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
Author
Playwright
Psychologist
Teacher
The Bronx
New York City
Humans
Really
Surely
Ego
Simply
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Human

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The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
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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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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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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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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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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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All space is space in which to create.
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Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.
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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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Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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