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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
New York City
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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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Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
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Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
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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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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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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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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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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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When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.
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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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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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Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.
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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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Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
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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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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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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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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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Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.
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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
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