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

Eric Maisel

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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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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.
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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
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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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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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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.
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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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It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.
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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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If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long 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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Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
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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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Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
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