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Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.
Eric Maisel
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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
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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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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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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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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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While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.
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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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The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
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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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The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.
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