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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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By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.
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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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Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
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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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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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The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important.
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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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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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It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of narcissism, but in her role as her own dear friend and advocate.
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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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Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.
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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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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
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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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