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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
Author
Playwright
Psychologist
Teacher
The Bronx
New York City
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Create

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The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
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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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A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.
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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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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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Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself.
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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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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.
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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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An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
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While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.
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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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Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?
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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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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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Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.
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