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If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.
Eric Maisel
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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
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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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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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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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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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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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Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
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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.
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Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
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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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All space is space in which to create.
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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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A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.
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As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again, by her own amazed, ringing laughter.
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Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
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The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged to learn how her defences work, so that she can drop and raise her guard instantly.
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While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.
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Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation.
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