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All space is space in which to create.

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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
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The Bronx
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One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often.
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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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The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
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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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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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Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
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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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