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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.

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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
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While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.
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To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity.
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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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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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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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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 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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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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The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.
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A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.
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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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The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
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Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.
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