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Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
Eric Maisel
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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
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Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of yourself.
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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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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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Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.
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An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
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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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Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
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A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.
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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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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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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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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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Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
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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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To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.
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