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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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Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
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