Quote

The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.

Eric Maisel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
Author
Playwright
Psychologist
Teacher
The Bronx
New York City
Human
Humans
Way
Idiot
Humanity
Artist
Also

More quotes by Eric Maisel

Image
When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.
Eric Maisel
Image
A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.
Eric Maisel
Image
Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
Eric Maisel
Image
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.
Eric Maisel
Image
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.
Eric Maisel
Image
Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of yourself.
Eric Maisel
Image
We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
Eric Maisel
Image
The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
Eric Maisel
Image
Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
Eric Maisel
Image
Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.
Eric Maisel
Image
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.
Eric Maisel
Image
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
Eric Maisel
Image
Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.
Eric Maisel
Image
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.
Eric Maisel
Image
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
Eric Maisel
Image
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.
Eric Maisel
Image
The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.
Eric Maisel
Image
To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.
Eric Maisel
Image
An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
Eric Maisel
Image
Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.
Eric Maisel