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The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.
Eric Maisel
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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
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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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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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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
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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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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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The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.
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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 wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
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