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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.

Eric Maisel

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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
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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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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 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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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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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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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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We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
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Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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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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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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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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