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Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
Eric Maisel
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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to behave differently. You are not just changing your breathing pattern, you are making a full-body announcement that you are entering into a different relationship with your mind and your body.
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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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Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.
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Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.
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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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Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
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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.
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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.
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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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Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
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Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.
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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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