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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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The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.
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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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An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.
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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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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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When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.
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An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
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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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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
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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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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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If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.
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While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.
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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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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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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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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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Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.
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A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.
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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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